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North Carolina has made great strides to clean the air for its citizens with the passage of the Clean Smokestacks Act in 2002. Now it is time for our upwind neighbors to do the same.

In 2004, Attorney General Roy Cooper filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to require states up-wind of NC to reduce their pollution emissions.  Instead of taking action, EPA has claimed its Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), a trading plan affecting 28 states, will also satisfy the petition.  But CAIR does not require upwind sources to cut pollution until after 2015, and it includes trading provisions that would allow upwind polluters to continue high levels of emissions even after that date.  This is not an adequate response to North Carolina's petition.

Air pollution doesn't stop at state lines. North Carolina needs real pollution reductions, and we need them now. Every day that our neighboring states fail to clean up their pollution means more soot, more smog and more asthma for NC.

TAKE ACTION NOW: Ask the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to protect our air quality from out of state pollution by granting NC's Section 126 petition.

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