It will be interesting to see the fall out from this ruling.
Seems like it provides incentives for companies to make modest improvements in environmental trechnology without forcing them to choose between keeping the curreent oldplant or investing boatloads to create new plants. Likewise, it seems to have struck down the parts that the environmentalists felt were most egregious.
Am I distorting this?
Ben Regenspan
Though I haven’t looked into the decision much, it definitely does come across as a pretty strong compromise and something that environmentalists have a lot of cause to be happy about. Rocky Mountain News has this little rundown of some key changes:
The Disenfranchised Voter
“Rules allowing facilities to look back 10 years instead of two years when setting a baseline against which future emissions increases are calculated.”
That ruling I do not like at all. Allowing facilities to look back 10 years in the realm of technology is way too lenient. Think about how much technology changes in 10 years…