Smokestacks Built on Dubious Data

RALEIGH—The North Carolina Clean Smokestacks Plan, the report on which the state’s landmark 2002 legislation was built, was written by a left-wing environmental group and contained assumptions based on what some call “junk science.” Environmental Defense, which produced the plan, believes the United States should sign on to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol and used last year’s big budget film fantasy "The Day After Tomorrow" as a launching point to warn about the dangers of global warming.