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The real issue is to allow industries to upgrade equipment. Currently, that is not allowed unless you bring the entire plant up to current EPA standards, so you cannot upgrade to a lower standard. It is all the way or no upgrades.

Take your car. Your catalytic converter fails. You cannot install a new catalytic converter that is a newer model and more efficient unless you bring the car up to this years new car standards across the board. So if anything else, such as mpg/exhaust mix/whatever is not at current standards, you need a new engine, computer, everything to meet standards. So you have a choice- more efficient catalytic converter and fix everything or forget the new cc and continue to pollute at your current level, which is perfectly legal! (And it is with your car too. You do not need to go to the better cc.)

This was a Clinton ruling and made no sense but the greens were overjoyed since it would force plants to build new. Had just the opposite effect since it did not allow incremental increases but set the status quo or worse so led to more pollution.

This is strictly political, but what is new.