Coal-fired power in a restructured electricity market.(Environmental Regulation, Energy, and Market Entry)

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, March, 2005 by Spence, David B.

The last decade has seen a series of fierce, protracted battles over the regulation of air pollution from coal-fired power plants in the United States. These battles have been (and are being) waged by electric utilities, environmental groups, and the last two presidential administrations, among others, before courts, agencies and Congress. They involve the regulation of at least five different pollutants, by at least as many different provisions of the Clean Air Act. This same decade has also seen fundamental changes in the way electricity markets are regulated in the United States. The concurrence of these events is no accident. In fact, the restructuring of electricity markets-the incremental movement away from close economic regulation of licensed monopoly suppliers...

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