Costly cooperation; Utility to pay record $1.2 billion pollution settlement.(Virginia Electric Power Co.)(Dominion Resources Inc.)(Cover Story)
Waste News, April, 2003
Byline: Joe Truini Dominion Resources Inc. will spend $1.2 billion to settle alleged clean air violations, the government's largest Clean Air Act enforcement settlement with a power company. Dominion will install and upgrade pollution controls to eliminate 237,000 tons of emissions from eight coal-fired power plants as part of the deal with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice. ``As a result of this agreement,'' EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said, ``our citizens will be able to breathe easier, our forests and waterways will face less stress as acid rain is diminished, and we will all be able to see farther and more clearly in our national parks as soot and other particulate matter is removed from the...
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