NC is suing the TVA. $5 million is chickenfeed in government, and the role of modern government, as we understand it, is to expand the legal sector of the economy. However, it is nice to live in Asheville where all the toxic, economy-busting soot from the TVA plants in Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky somehow magically disappear en route to other parts of the state. I guess.

Piedmont Publius gives us more detail. The particulate matter wafting over the state line is (choke choke) more apt to cause heart attacks and strokes than driving behind a diesel-billowing jalopy.