Keeping Grandfathered Polluters Alive: EPA's New Equipment Replacement Provision.

Focuses on the final rule, Equipment Replacement Provision released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on August 27, 2003. Impact of the provision on the implementation of the Clean Air Act in the country; Criticisms against the shortcomings of the rule; Threats posed by the provision to industrial plants that remained subject to the increased cost of New Source Review.