Economist: Many spoons stir system operations kettle; many to blame
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21 Feb 2012
Pity the engineers responsible for keeping America’s coal-fired power plants up to standard. Late last year a federal court halted the adoption of new regulations on interstate air pollution that would have affected lots of them—just two days before they were due to go into force. The suspended regulations, in turn, were themselves a replacement for an earlier set of rules which had been thrown out by the courts in 2008. The older regulations have now been temporarily reinstated, while the court hears various challenges to the new ones. The eventual outcome is anyone’s guess.
Similar chaos surrounds another set of rules, these ones governing ozone, which will also affect lots of power plants.
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