Quote:Where would they sue them?  Florida courts have no jurisdiction over anyone in Georgia.  They'd have to sue them in federal court.   But what federal law have they violated?   You've done away with federal pollution laws and left it all to the individual states.  

 

Sorry I missed this post earlier, 

 

As for this case if states where responsible for their own pollution, states would enter into contracts with each other. These contracts would have arbitrators to settle disputes it could very well be federal arbitrators but it would be up to the states and how they negotiated the contracts on who was responsible for what. 

 

What does Spain do when France's pollution affects there area, they work it out. The same principle would work with states, they would work it out. It would be vastly different than what you have now instead of one central power you'd have 50 localized powers pursuing their interest for their people, that was the purpose of establishing states in the first place. 

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