There are great mounds of imported coal being loaded onto
rail cars for
shipment to a local power station to be burned and release thousands of tons of climate -
changing carbon into the atmosphere.
And the lower - than - expected cost of sulfur dioxide regulation mostly resulted from technological
changes that occurred well before the establishment of pollution trading:
rail deregulation allowed for the economic
shipment of low - sulfur coal, and the development of cheaper scrubbers.