North Carolina's attorney general has filed a lawsuit in federal court against TVA for, according to the report, "harming the state's economy and the health of its residents by failing to reduce pollutants from its coal-burning power plants." (Thanks to Michael Silence for bringing this to our attention.)

Clearly the AG hasn't been reading the Knoxville newspaper. If he had, he'd know that the air is clean and getting cleaner, that TVA spends $1 million per minute or something like that on pollution controls, that TVA has virtually eliminated pollution from its power plants, and that coal fired power plant pollution is a myth anyway because everybody knows that air pollution is caused by volcanoes and bovine flatulence.

On a related note, I was recently checking the TVA website to see if they had posted any new emissions data lately. The most recent fossil plant emission data is for 2003. I sent an e-mail asking why it hadn't been updated, and where I could find the data for 2004, and when they would have the data for 2005. I'll let you know what I find out. I'm not holding my breath.