Why should we do this on the state level, here in Virginia? Because, as the Post article points out, local officials are "tired of waiting on the federal government to beef up its own pollution-control rules." And, as Gina McCarthy, commissioner of Connecticut's Department of Environmental Protection, says:
The federal standards are simply not good enough. If we can't get the federal government to act, then we have to take action in any way we can.
You said it, Gina!