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[ron thigpen <ron AT fuzzsonic.com>]

Shea Tisdale wrote:

> The state of North Carolina believes that most of the pollution being
> measured in Charlotte, the Triad and Triangle, as well as around the
> mountains of western NC is the result of emissions from power plants in
> Tennessee and the mid-west.
>
> I'd like to see some research that backs that up. 

That may be so, but the following facilities keep showing up as top 
sources for a variety of pollutants including SO2 and mercury.

Belews Creek - Stokes Co. - Duke Energy
Marshall  - Catawba Co. - Duke Energy
Roxboro  -Person  Co. - Progress Energy, Carolina Pwr. & Light

All would likely be big beneficiaries of the current administration's 
overhaul of the "new source review" rules.  Fortunately, NC put some 
laws and agreements in place in recent years that will drive down 
emissions from these plants over time.  Costs are spread out over many 
years to be borne mainly by the ratepayers.   NC's beef with neighboring 
states is that they haven't come on board and put similar rules in 
place.  Those states see the benefits of NC's lower emissions, but don't 
pony up to cover their own.  And the feds sure haven't done anything but 
make the power plant situation worse in the last, oh, three and a half 
years.

<http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/dirtiest_plants2.pdf>

--rt