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in addition to tne iederai government, Virginia Power is working with the service to develop models for a power plant it owns half of with Old Dominion Electric Cooperative in Clover, Va., as part of an agreement the parties worked out after the park service appealed a permit to the EPA.
There are those who say, however, that the state is pushing the Park Service to unreasonable lengths in making it prove damage.
“This thing has evolved improperly and the Park Service has to prove, say, that 14 trees are going to die as a result of a given plant. The burden of proof is way too high,” says Elizabeth Fayad, staff counsel for the private National Parks and Conservation Association. She adds, “We’re not talking about a criminal case here, where the government has to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt.”
The core of the problem is that companies simply don’t want to spend money on either offsets or new anti-pollution technology, Ms. Fayad says. This resistance feeds into the anti-regulation atmosphere in Washington and that is putting increasing pressure on the Park Service to back off on its aggressive stance, she says.
“Basically, they’ve been ordered to come to terms with new sources and sort of take a small amount (in anti-pollution demands) in return for backing off on their appeals,” Ms. Fayad says. The Park Service has appealed only one permit to date, Ms. Thomas says.
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