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| | Planet Ark : UPDATE - Virginia Power agrees to cut plant emissions |
 | | WASHINGTON - Virginia Electric Power Company will spend a record $1.2 billion over 12 years in a deal with the federal government and New York state to clean-up eight coal-fired power plants whose emissions are blamed for causing acid rain and smog in the Northeast, the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday. |
 | | The utility, which is a unit of Dominion Resources, also agreed to pay a $5.3 million civil fine and perform $13.9 million in environmental projects as part of the consent agreement, settling charges VEPCO violated the Clean Air Act by refusing to modernize pollution controls at its facilities. |
 | | Mount Storm in Mount Storm Lake, West Virginia; Chesterfield in Chester, Va., Bremo in Bremo Bluff, Va., Chesapeake Energy Center in Chesapeake, Va., Clover in Clover, Va., North Branch in Bayard, West Virginia; Possum Point in Dumfries, Va., and Yorktown in Yorktown, Va. |
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