Attorney General Jason Miyares says Governor Glenn Youngkin’s state of emergency declaration from Hurricane Ian triggered Virginia’s anti-price gouging statutes protecting consumers from paying exorbitant prices during an emergency event. It prohibits charging “unconscionable prices” for “necessary goods and services” during the thirty-day period following a declared state of emergency. The test for determining if a price is unconscionable is whether the post-disaster price grossly exceeds the price charged during the ten days prior to the disaster.