What are the Northeast states asking for?
Equity! All of the petitioning states have already agreed to impose further, stringent pollution control requirements on their power plants and large industrial plants (up to 65% NOx reductions by 1999 and 75% by 2003). New Hampshire’s regulations called for these reductions on an even faster schedule, 1995 and 1999 respectively. All we’re asking for is for dirty upwind plants to do the same. Otherwise, Northeast citizens and businesses will be forced to spend more and more to clean up after-the-fact air pollution, when it would be relatively inexpensive to clean it up at the source.
