B. the benefits of cleaning up the NOx will include health, agricultural crops, forests and improved visibility. The harm of NOx to health and the environment is broad indeed.
Ozone harms all plant and animal life.
Forests are harmed by nitric acid rain as well as by ozone. Crops like soybeans and tobacco are harmed by ozone. Aquatic life from trout in mountain streams to all forms of life in North Carolina's estuaries are harmed by acidification and enrichment of nitrates. This is based on the most authoritative scientific study to date of ozone in the South, that of the Southern Oxidant Study. G. North Carolina's neighbor to the west, the Tennessee Valley Authority, as committed to installation of 18 SCR NOx reducing filters on their coal-burning utilities.