At least some TVA money to go to mountains

Some money from an air pollution settlement must be spent in Western North Carolina and some might or might not, the state legislature has decided.Bills passed in the waning days of the General Assembly’s session that ended last week require that $2.24 million of an $11.2 million pot of money for environmental projects that North Carolina is getting as part of a settlement with the Tennessee Valley Authority be spent in WNC. Read More...

(From the Asheville Citizen-Times, July 10)