Clean Air Update
Friday, July 18 2008
by Frank Stasio and Katy Barron
Air pollution regulation has been making headlines in North Carolina. A trial currently underway in Asheville pits the state of North Carolina against the Tennessee Valley Authority. Plus, North Carolina was behind a recent federal ruling that invalidated the foundation of the Bush Administration’s Clean Air Act. Why is North Carolina’s fight against out-of-state air pollution at odds with the goals of national environmental groups? And why are environmental groups and the Bush administration on the same side? Ryke Longest, director of the Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Duke University, explains the complex and sometimes counterintuitive logic behind interstate air pollution regulation.
