NC won a landmark agreement this week to force the Tennessee Valley Authority to stop pumping pollution across state lines. TVA will reduce emissions from all it's coal-fired plants and will also pay $11.2 million to NC over the next 5 years to be used for energy efficiency and electricity demand reduction programs.
NC attorney general, Roy Cooper, argued that the pollution degrades water and soil, damages farmers' crops, and hurts the state's forest and waterways. They also cause haze and reduce visibility, especially in the NC mountains, a draw for the states $12 billion-a-year tourism industry.
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