Energy Needs And Environmental Rules Collide
2 April 2001 - 12:00pm
Environmental regulators' attitudes and incentives must change if new energy plants are to be built in the near future.
"California's environmental regulators act as if they perceive their role as gatekeeper, and their methods of enforcing state regulations have been sufficiently obstructionist to delay the construction of plants that were approved as long as five years ago. The problem is that state regulators don't care if power plants get built, only that siting and environmental rules are followed."
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Reason Public Policy Institute, October 4, 2005
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