established new ozone standards. The EPA also placed special

restrictions on twenty-two states in the Ohio Valley and Midwest

regions to prevent emissions from coal-burning power plants from

being carried into the New England States by wind currents.

(Tennessee is one of these twenty-two states.) Both of these

rulings were recently either struck down or placed on hold by

Why: The regulations put into place in 1997 by the EPA were

more restrictive than the 1990 standards. The regulations limit

the amount of ground level ozone and fine particle pollution

permitted. Ground level ozone is produced by nitrogen oxide(NOx)

which is created by burning fossil fuels. Since gasoline and

diesel are both fossil fuels, then NOx is a major component of

automobile emissions. Several members of the trucking and fossil

fuel industries, as well as members of the twenty-two state

region, have challenged the regulations in Federal Court and have

been successful in blocking the implementation of the new rules.

In the past two months, two separate Federal Court Of Appeals

panels have ruled that the EPA’s authority to establish clean ai

Opinion: Who gets what, when and how. The EPA is trying to

makes the evening news, but very little is ever said about the

the new requirements by the year 2000 deadline and Chattanooga

plaintiffs, while several environmental lobby groups and health

Justice, as well as 411 civil court cases. Approximately half of

ozone contributes significantly to smog. Smog, according to an

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