EPA Flags Virginia's Extra NOx Emissions in Trading Program
Published Date: 8/4/2026
Notice
Summary
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is providing notice of the availability of data on the administration of the assurance provisions of the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) trading program for the 2025 control period. Virginia units participating in the CSAPR NO<INF>X</INF> Ozone Season Group 2E Trading Program during the 2025 control period reported total nitrogen oxides (NO<INF>X</INF>) emissions that exceeded the State's assurance level under the program. The EPA has posted on the Agency's website a spreadsheet that presents data demonstrating the exceedance and the Agency's preliminary calculations of the additional allowances that owners and operators of certain Virginia units must surrender. The EPA will consider timely objections to the data and calculations before making final determinations of the additional allowances that owners and operators of certain Virginia units must surrender.
Analyzed Economic Effects
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Virginia Must Surrender 140 Allowances
Virginia power units reported 70 tons of NOX emissions over the State's assurance level for the 2025 control period. That exceedance requires owners and operators in Virginia to surrender 140 additional CSAPR NOX Ozone Season Group 2E allowances, with final calculations due by 2026-10-01 and the required allowances held in an assurance account by 2026-11-01.
Allowance Burden Assigned to Specific Operators
EPA's preliminary calculations apportion the 140 additional allowances primarily to the group of units operated by Hopewell Power Generation, LLC and Dominion Generation, with smaller shares apportioned to groups operated by Wolf Hills Energy, LLC and Calpine Operating Services Company, Inc. EPA will consider timely objections to these calculations before issuing final apportionments.
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