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{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}}'''Rochester Gas and Electric''' (RG&E) is a subsidiary of [[Energy East]] Corporation, a super-regional energy services and delivery company in the Northeast. Rochester Gas and Electric serve RG&E serves 359,000 electricity customers and 296,000 natural gas customers in a nine-county region centered on the City of Rochester in upstate New York.<ref>[http://www.rge.com/OurCompany/News/news02202008.html "RG&E and The State Settle Dispute Regarding Russell Station"] Rochester Gas and Electric Press Release, February 20, 2008.</ref>

"In February2008, addressing violations of New Source Review provisions of the Clean Air Act, 2008 Attorney General Cuomo reached a settlement with RG&E and the State of New York settled the state’s claim that requiring the company made major upgrades to shut down its coal-burning Russell Station power plant in the mid-1980s without installing required pollution controlsTown of Greece. The agreement mandates that if RG&E says that modifications to replaces the plant were merely routine maintenance and were therefore exempt from 'new source review' pollution control requirements, it must be with a more efficient, cleaner, lower carbon dioxide-emitting natural gas plant. Under the terms of the The settlement, also requires RG&E will to pay a civil penalty of $500200,000 to the New York State Research and Development Authority for Rochester-area energy efficiency or $500,000 to fund air pollution reduction projects authorized by the state in Orleans, Monroe, Wayne, Ontario, and $200,000 to the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC)Livingston counties."<ref>[http://www.rgeoag.comstate.ny.us/media_center/OurCompany2008/Newsfeb/news02202008feb20a_08.html "RGCuomo Announces Settlement to Close Rochester Gas &E and The State Settle Dispute Regarding Electric's Coal-Burning Russell StationPower Plant"] Rochester Gas and Electric Press ReleaseOffice of the Attorney general Media Center, February 20, 2008.</ref>