ALBANY, May 1 -- The New York State Legislature today completed passage of a
bill that seeks to reduce the amount of air pollution that drifts into New
York from coal-burning power plants in Midwestern and Southern states. . . .
No problem. All the state has to do is issue a parallel set
of permits, for as much pollution as they think they can stand,
and require their producers to have both the Federal and state
permit. The market isn't the problem. It's the Feds preempting
state prerogatives.
Or just tax them, like Hahnel proposes.
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