Coal's Role In Virginia's Air Quality, Economy Praised

In a letter to the editor of the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Cathy Coffey, a communications director with the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, wrote that "Virginia's air quality became dramatically cleaner over the past decade due to the installation of modern emission-control technologies on coal-based power plants and reduced emissions from motor vehicles and other sources," and "further air quality gains will occur over the next decade as a result of Virginia's 2006 Clean Smoke Stacks Act and new EPA air quality regulations."

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