Charles City, VA This morning, impacted residents and environmental justice advocates gathered virtually to highlight the accumulated negligence behind C4GT’s permitting processes and the environmental injustices core to the project. On the heels of a Charles City County Administration vote to reclaim the land the power plant plans to develop, and one week after C4GT’s State Corporation Commission’s Certificate of Public Necessity was due to expire, speakers gathered to urge prompt state action to stop the project.
The C4GT plant is the latest in a string of fossil fuel infrastructure projects to enter rocky ground, from the evaporating financial rationale behind the Mountain Valley Pipeline to the corporate interfighting that left C4GT footing the bill in a recent lawsuit loss to Virginia Natural Gas. Despite the limited financial viability of the project, state agencies and lawmakers have been unwilling to take action against the plant.
UpdatedMon, Apr 5, 2021 at 4:03 pm ET
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Members of the Rockland Water Coalition want the state to do more to protect the county from the newly recognized pollutants. (Phoebe Galt/Zoom)
ROCKLAND COUNTY, NY Members of the Rockland Water Coalition, along with allies and elected officials, held a virtual news conference Monday demanding New York do more to monitor, publicly disclose, and cleanup PFAS or forever chemicals in the county s water supply.
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances are a group of man-made chemicals, including PFOA, PFOS, GenX and many others.
PFAS contamination surfaced in the past decade as a public health concern. The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry cites studies linking PFAS contamination to liver problems, low birth weight, some cancers and other health issues.
01.29.21
Richmond, VA Today nearly 30 groups representing over 70,000 citizens across the Commonwealth of Virginia released a
letter calling on state officials to stand up to C4GT LLC’s underhanded actions to fast-track a new gas plant into Charles City County, bypassing a key air permit process designed to safeguard the health and air quality of the County’s environmental justice community. Letter signatories collected by the Stop the Abuse of Virginian Energy (SAVE) coalition demand swift action from Governor Northam, Attorney General Herring, and Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Director Paylor to investigate the legality of C4GT’s claims of construction in relation to 9VAC5-80-1985, which states: