>>From the September 11 - 17, 1999 Weekly Breather, published
by the
American Lung
>Association:
>New York State said it would file suit in Federal Court against
the owners
of 17
>coal-burning power plants in West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
Virginia and
Kentucky
>to force them to clean up pollution that drifts into New York
from those
plants,
>The New York Times reported on Sept. 15.
>
>People in New York can urge their government to aggresively
pursue this case,
>and people in other down-wind areas should push their governments
to do
>likewise. This suggests an intriging possibility: perhaps
a bandwagon can be
>developed to go after the coal-electric industry to pay for
all the damage
>they've caused like the class-action lawsuits that went after
the tobacco
>industry. Over the long run, the higher the price of using
coal, the less
>demand there'll be.
>