Washington, Aug. 7 -- Congressman Morgan Griffith issued the following press release:

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger recently announced she is going to intervene with the State Corporation Commission regarding the proposed merger between NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy. This merger will impact electric ratepayers, utility jobs and Virginia's energy future. It would affect control over one of Virginia's last remaining coal-fired power plants, the Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center in St. Paul, Virginia. Currently, Dominion Energy owns the clean coal facility, which has supported local jobs and cleaned up millions of tons of waste coal in Southwest Virginia since Dominion opened the facility in 2012. In response to the proposed mer...