“I think we need a federal EPA because there is an Interstate component to polution. Tennessee is downwind and downriver of other states.”
The state of california destroys our air quality in northern nevada for weeks at a time in the summer with their mismanagement of forrests. For weeks at a time you can literally (not figuratively) not see the sun at high noon. Their billows of smoke extend hundreds of miles across Nevada and make it so you cant even see mountain ranges 5 miles away. There is probably a hundred times more greenhouse gasses released per fire than the entire population of Nevada produces in a year. I have never once heard the EPA say nary a peep about nevadas air quality
okay, but they should. That’s what Federal EPA should be doing.
Making sure that everybody lives up to a minimum standard, and that states aren’t harming other states.