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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12/3/25  2:36 am
Commenter: Anonymous

Electrical fire victim AGAINST DATA CENTERS
 

I implore you to vote NO to diesel generators for data centers, not just because of the massive environmental and air health and quality concerns but because it’s also not an emergency that the local electrical infrastructure doesn’t currently support the corporate billionaire funded data centers. I was a victim of a massive electrical fire just last year, it is quick and it is deadly. Killed our animals, almost killed us, and completely gutted the house we’ve lived in for 25 years. The house we grew UP in. There is ALREADY too much strain on the local electricity grid, and you not only don’t want to pay to update it, but then you also want to pump cancer causing and environmentally destructive diesel fuel into our air and subject our communities to that, for what? Profit? People matter, our communities and ecosystems matter. Stop destroying our communities in the name of greed and vote NO to diesel generators. 

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