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DEQ statement on ruling upholding Virginia cap-and-trade program
Published Monday, Jul. 19, 2021, 7:35 pm
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Last week, the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond ruled in favor of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, rejecting the Virginia Manufacturers Association’s challenge to the regulations enabling Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
“The Court held that DEQ did exactly what the General Assembly told it to do in establishing our carbon trading program,” said DEQ Director David Paylor.
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July 1, 2021 This rule has been transformed completely, with a much higher price tag, said Elizabeth Williamson, an attorney with Williams Mullen representing the Virginia Manufacturers Association, at a hearing before Judge Beverly Snukals in Richmond Circuit Court Wednesday morning.
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The VMA in its lawsuit has argued that the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality failed to follow correct procedure in revising its carbon trading regulation, that the new regulation is vague and that it imposes an illegal carbon tax on ratepayers.
Virginia s Office of the Attorney General, however, says that DEQ simply followed clear directives set by the General Assembly in a 2020 law authorizing the state to join a carbon market, and that the regulation is neither vague nor an illegal tax.