2021 VA Governor's race: on Environment


Jennifer Carroll Foy: Power plant should meet EPA standards on coal ash

Foy's drafting a bill to require Dominion to contract to recycle as much ash as possible and then "clean close the rest of it."

"That means it's excavated and removed to an offsite landfill, away from waterways, that meets current EPA standards," Foy said. "Away from our communities where it can have irreparable harm to our children, to our drinking water to our waterways. We have to protect our rivers. That's what I want to happen."

Source: Prince Williams Times on 2021 Virginia Gubernatorial race Dec 19, 2018

Amanda Chase: States closer than Feds, can address issues more carefully

With the Virginia law passed, he said, the state and the utility can now get to the hard part: preventing more coal ash from seeping into groundwater. And they don't have to wait around for the EPA. "It's challenging to get anything done at the federal level," said Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase, a Republican from Midlothian. "States are closer to what's going on. They can address those issues more carefully."
Source: Pew Stateline on 2021 Virginia Governor race Dec 2, 2019

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Candidates and political leaders on Environment:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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