"Supporters also said better air quality could help promote economic development in the county."
That is the most stupid statement I've read in months. Eco-fascists will say anything, tell any lie to promote their Marxism.
If it were true, my county would be buried in factories and Starbucks. (The nearest Starbucks is 250 miles away.) And manufacturers are leaving my county because of our communist governor and her draconian soviet socialist policies. In her State of Socialism address last night, the clueless twit promised to raise taxes on everything to promote economic development and lure business to the state.
Welcome to Michigan: More like western Europe every day!
"Eco-fascists will say anything, tell any lie to promote their Marxism."
While your statement is true, in this instance, it was not the ecological aspect, rather the economic one. Due to the federal non-compliance issues, any new production/transportation-based businesses in the zone have been over a barrel with the EPA before they even get started (Kingsport was founded by the CC&O (now CSX) railroad to be an industrial city from the very start). There will be very little left if those businesses close down.