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DEQ briefs board on controversial permits; retiring director highlights long-term air-quality gains
Summary
DEQ staff updated the board on three controversial permit reviews — Dominion's Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center, Mountain Valley Pipeline's Swan Compressor Station, and an Amazon greenfield data center — and Director Mike Dowd delivered retirement remarks highlighting declines in key pollutants since 2008.
Mike Dowd, director of the Renewable Energy Division at the Department of Environmental Quality, briefed the State Air Pollution Control Board on three pending controversial permits and delivered his final directors report before retiring.
Dowd said the first permit is the PSD major-source application for Dominions Chesterfield Energy Reliability Center (CERC), a proposed 1-gigawatt, four-unit simple-cycle natural-gas turbine facility sited on the existing Chesterfield power-station site. DEQ posted a response-to-comments document before Thanksgiving and will hold the statutorily required…
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