Virginia’s Department of Environmental Quality, which is using a Mechanicsville-based environmental consulting firm to review the reams of plans that lay out how a pair of massive pending pipeline projects will manage erosion, sediment and stormwater during and after construction, says the company’s existing work with Dominion Energy doesn’t present a conflict.

However, because DEQ didn’t ask, the agency didn’t initially know about EEE Consulting’s current $44,187 contract with Dominion for environmental work related to microwave towers in Southampton and Suffolk when it hired the company for $2.2 million back in May.