>>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.
>