RSA 125-O:1 Findings and Purpose.

I. The general court finds that while air quality has improved in recent years, scientific advances have demonstrated that adequate protection of public health, environmental quality, and economic well-being-the 3 cornerstones of New Hampshire's quality of life-requires additional, concerted reductions in air pollutant emissions. The general court also finds that the state's tradition of environmental leadership-setting an example for similarly feasible air pollution reductions from upwind jurisdictions-is also well served by additional emission reductions.
II. Recent studies and scientific evidence, documented in the New Hampshire Clean Power Strategy issued in January 2001 by the department of environmental services, indicates that significant negative human health and ecosy