NY Dems Pressure Gov. Hochul to Close Operating Gas-Fired Plant

Competitive Power Ventures’ 680-megawatt CPV Valley Energy Center in Wawayanda, NY, fired up and began producing enough electricity to power 600,000 liberal NY homes in October 2018 (see CPV Marcellus-Fired Elec Plant in Orange County Now Online!). Andrew Cuomo, who was Governor at the time, tried his best to block CPV Valley Energy Center, which uses Marcellus gas and cost $900 million to build. Cuomo instructed his lapdog Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to deny renewing a federal air permit they previously issued five years earlier for the project. However, a judge saw right through that one and overruled the DEC, allowing the plant to continue operations using a state air permit instead (see Judge Refuses to Shut Down Orange County, NY Gas-Fired Plant).

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