As the largest electricity supplier in Virginia and the biggest non-party donor to state politicians, Dominion has a stranglehold on Virginia’s energy policy.
Virginia's 2007 voluntary Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) (§ 56-585.2) was meant to make Virginia’s air and water cleaner, and reduce the commonwealth’s emissions of greenhouse gases. Unfortunately, lobbyists for the state's largest utility companies riddled the RPS with so many loopholes that it is not serving this intended purpose.
Virginia boasts a tremendous renewable energy resource: offshore wind. The Chesapeake Climate Action Network is working with other Virginia environmental groups to encourage Dominion Virginia Power and Governor McDonnell to work together to bring offshore wind energy development to the commonwealth.
Offshore oil drilling would threaten Virginia's coastal communities and fishing and tourism industries with devastating spills, while enabling more of the fossil fuel pollution causing climate change and rising sea levels. We want wind mills, not oil spills!
