Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
Air Pollution Control Board
 
Guidance Document Change: DEQ Guidance Memo APG-578 addresses the use of emergency generators in the case of “sudden and reasonably unforeseeable events” as the result of a planned electric outage.
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11/21/25  7:51 am
Commenter: Elise Leake

Data centers and fossil fuels
 

Virginia’s beautiful land and clean air is steadily being compromised without consideration of the devastating generational impacts.  Please do not allow data centers and fossil fuel generators to be built or expanded. These data centers projects are robbing Virginians of our very distinct beauty.  If industries continue to dismantle our countryside, air quality and clean water what will be left to distinguish our state? Virginia should be a positive example to the world, following  indisputable science and acknowledging the horrific long term consequences of continual short term decisions that have permanent negative environmental impact.

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