PEC: It’s Time for Virginia to Pause Data Center Approvals
It’s Time for Virginia to Pause Data Center Approvals – The Piedmont Environmental Council
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Dulles South Innovation Center Application Beyond Absurd
Dear Coalition Friends and Neighbors, If you believed we had reached the pinnacle of absurd with the Digital Gateway project, buckle up. Greed and avarice apparently know no “earthly” bounds. As you may be aware, since around 2022 there has been an “assemblage” area of approximately
PJM Data Center-Driven Transmission Expansion Projects 2022 to Present – December 2025
This presentation contains the latest recommended PJM transmission expansion project: PJM Data Center Driven Projects 2022 to Present Dec 2025
Coalition Responds to DEQ – Get YOUR Comments In!
Dear Coalition Friends and Supporters, We wanted to share the Coalition Letter to Virginia’s DEQ for two reasons: ** We wanted to remind you to send in a few brief comments expressing your concerns to DEQ. Their main job, as a science-based non-partisan government agency — their “only”
Coalition Comment to DEQ: NO to new DEQ on-site generator guidance
DEQ comments 120125 ProtectPWC.org December 1, 2025 NO to new DEQ on-site generator guidance The observation of the Coalition to Protect Prince William County is fairly simple. What this new proposed DEQ “guidance” demonstrates is that our public utility system is broken. We reject
SCC Raises YOUR Utility Rates
Dear Coalition Supporters and Friends, Life is all about perspective. Is the glass half empty, or half full. Our approach in the tough times – for how to manage what we know is a very long game – is to keep moving forward. However –
The Three Dastardly ‘D’s: Diesel, Data, DEQ
Dear Coalition Supporters and Friends, What do all these ‘D’s have in common? They all connect to your air quality. Yes, that’s correct. How are they connected, you may be asking. Remember back in 2023 when this community showed up in force at DEQ to
Vantage Data Center in Ashburn: Noise & Gas Emissions
Vantage noise 1 Vantage noise 2 Vantage emissions along ground
Now it’s Gas Lines and Gas Plants
Dear Coalition Supporters and Friends, If only we could turn this energy infrastructure onslaught into a game. With prizes. But this is not a game, and it certainly isn’t fun. In addition to the massive concrete data center buildings and the land they consume, there are
PJM: Data Center-Driven Transmission Expansion Projects – November 2025
PJM Data Center Driven Projects 2022 to Present November 2025
Invasion of the Transmission Line Monsters
Dear Coalition Supporters and Friends, This is TOTALLY RIDICULOUS! We are being inundated by yet more data center energy infrastructure. READ THIS! With all the data centers being built and approved in our region, the reality is that the expansion of the power corridor between
Prince William County deserves a future without sprawl
Dear Coalition Supporters and Friends, How much sprawl — housing and/or data centers — can one county absorb?! Did you know that portions of Prince William County are not just a critical drinking water resource for the Occoquan Reservoir, but are ALSO critical to the entire Chesapeake Bay Watershed?
Letter to PJM: PJM CIFP Fast Tracking — Comments & Recommendations — Coalition to Protect Prince William County
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2025 12:16 PM To: ‘Michele.Greening@pjm.com’ <Michele.Greening@pjm.com>; ‘lynn.horning@pjm.com’ <lynn.horning@pjm.com> Cc: ‘elena s’ <elenalouise@hotmail.com>; ‘karensheehan@verizon.net’ <karensheehan@verizon.net>; ‘Cindy Burbank’ <cindy.burbank@comcast.net>; ‘Julie Bolthouse’ <jbolthouse@pecva.org>; ‘Denise Schefer’ <denise.schefer@gmail.com>; ‘PJ Leary’ <pjleary1@gmail.com>; ‘Evelyn Eichorn’ <eeichorn@pecva.org>; ‘Dave Gibson’ <davegibson3@gmail.com>; ‘OPC@maryland.gov’ <OPC@maryland.gov>; ‘ma@monitoringanalytics.com’ <ma@monitoringanalytics.com>; ‘william.fields@maryland.gov’ <william.fields@maryland.gov>; ‘trutigliano@nrdc.org’ <trutigliano@nrdc.org>; ‘clang-ree@nrdc.org’
DON’T MISS IT – TONIGHT: An Evening about OUR Backyards
Award-winning author in Haymarket! An Evening About OUR Backyards with Author Miranda Spivack TONIGHT – NOVEMBER 6th 6:00 – 8:00 PM Giuseppe’s – 2nd floor ‘Dopo Ora Speakeasy’ 15120 Washington Street Haymarket, VA 20169 RESERVE YOUR SEAT! Miranda Spivack visited western Prince William County two and a
Press Conference/Rally – Standing United Against More Data Center Powerlines
What: Rally and Press Conference Opposing yet ANOTHER 230kV Data Center Transmission Line When: Wednesday, November 5th – 5:30 pm Where: GMU Beacon Hall, 10945 George Mason Circle, Manassas Who: Vida Carroll – CABSA Senator Danica Roem Delegate Ian Lovejoy Gainesville Supervisor Candidate Patrick Harders Jeanne
REMINDER – OUR BACKYARD events this week
VOTE! Your Vote Matters! On Tuesday, ensure we have a dependable and experienced voice for all our backyards on the Board of County Supervisors! ——————————– Award-winning author in Haymarket! An Evening About OUR Backyards with Author Miranda Spivack THURSDAY – NOVEMBER 6th 6:00 – 8:00
It’s Time for a MORATORIUM
Dear Coalition Friends and Supporters, We understand how frustrating this past week has been. We all keep stepping up and demanding better from our local leaders, yet what we are witnessing in return is their blatant disrespect and disregard. Their unwillingness to open their eyes,
NO VOTE on a Noise Ordinance until Gainesville has REPRESENTATION
Dear Coalition friends and supporters, Would it shock you to know that the FOUR district supervisors (Boddye, Franklin, Bailey, Angry) representing every district on the east end of our county, voted to disband – in a surprise move – the critical DCOAG that Supervisor Bob Weir wholeheartedly
Award-Winning Author Coming to Haymarket!
RESERVE YOUR SEAT TODAY! Miranda Spivack visited western Prince William County two and a half years ago, when she was close to finishing her book. She witnessed early on the destructive consequences of data center sprawl when Coalition leadership ‘introduced’ her to the Village Tech Park data center campus consuming
Community is ALL that matters
Dear Friends and Supporters – We all experience those moments…. when the fight feels too big, too hard, too impossible. Do we have the energy to keep fighting. To keep rolling that rock up the mountain, hoping at some point we will reach that pinnacle when we finally