One small example of how Government efforts to regulate an environmental agenda backfire. True story from work.

The coal fired burner we have at one facility has a regulation to keep % NOx emissions below a certain parts per million level. The only way to do that is to operate the boiler hotter than it needs to run, which is to say, burn more coal than is needed to supply the amount of steam needed. So we burn more coal than what for the actual load in order to keep the ppm NOx emissions below the threshold. The worst part is that at the higher temperature we actually emit more NOx, but its at a lower ppm rate in the exhaust stream so its OK.

Politicians..