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On October 2nd the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) designated two National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETC), one on each coast. The east coast corridor looks exactly like the draft corridor and includes over 200 counties in 8 Mid-Atlantic states, including 15 counties in Virginia.

This overly broad NIETC designation has drastic implications. For the first time in US history, more than 116,000 square miles from upstate New York to Virginia could be subject to federal eminent domain for transmission line projects.