Virginia Air Board To Vote On Draft Of Landmark State Carbon Regulation Thursday

11/16/17

By Robert Zullo, Richmond Times-Dispatch

A regulation to limit carbon-dioxide emissions from Virginia power plants and link the state to a carbon-trading network of northeastern and mid-Atlantic states heads to the State Air Control Board for preliminary approval Thursday.

If adopted, the proposed rule, which seeks to establish emissions limits and a carbon trading program for power plants above 25 megawatts in capacity beginning in 2020, will head out for a 60-day public comment period.

The state Department of Environmental Quality has proposed two “budgets,” or caps, for the commencement of the program: 33 or 34 million tons of carbon dioxide. That’s roughly what current projections anticipate the state’s output to be by 2020, said Mike Dowd, director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s air and renewable energy divisions.

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