Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Thursday said he supports scrapping a two-year-old deal that shields Dominion Power from rate reviews, saying the rationale for protecting the utility will be lost if the Trump Administration does away with the federal Clean Power Plan.
“The reason we did this, let’s be fair, I mean, was because of the Clean Power Plan and the increased costs that would come with the Clean Power Plan,” McAuliffe said in an interview on the John Fredericks Show, a conservative talk-radio program. “From what I read and from what I hear from Washington from President Trump and his new proposed EPA administrator, the Clean Power Plan is going to go away. .?.?. If we don’t have those increased costs because of the Clean Power Plan, then [protection for Dominion] should be off the table.”
McAuliffe (D) made the remark after Fredericks, who has been broadcasting his show from different locations on Capitol Square during the legislative session, asked him about an already defeated bill on the subject.'
