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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11/27/25  8:56 am
Commenter: Kate Hinz

NO to avoidable pollution!
 

Please prioritize the health and safety of our communities - and it's most vulnerable members like the elderly, children, and those already chronically ill with respiratory illnesses - and say NO to allowing data centers to avoid their responsibility in finding clean alternatives to planned outages.

Data Centers are more than capable of finding alternatives when they have enough notice and allowing them to further pollute (on top of their ordinary, constant pollution) is just pandering to an already underregulated resource guzzling polluter.

Thank you for standing firm and using common sense against the demands of data centers.

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