North Carolina gets go-ahead in its TVA pollution suit [1]

The state of North Carolina can proceed with a lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority that demands the utility clean up its power plants and reduce air pollution, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

If the EPA won't make TVA clean up its coal plants, maybe North Carolina can. But North Carolina's Duke Energy [2] and the rest of the Southern state utilities that burn coal all need to clean up their act.