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Grandfathering

Grandfathering is the process of exempting any older rule from eradication when new rules are being applied. The process of Grandfathering is used to reframe sources of pollution, which is a common feature of the regulatory state.

Grandfathering of sources of pollution is one of the most common features of the regulatory state. At the time of passing of new regulatory requirements, some previous requirements are needed to be retained due to high cost of reformations of these old requirements. Grandfathering management provides current sources a significant advantage relative to new sources and therefore provided them an opportunity to earn encouragement to stay in procedure longer than they would in the absence of environmental regulation. Thus the effect of grandfathering can be further exaggerated, if the current sources are allowed to renovate or get revamped without having to meet the standards appropriate to new sources.

From the period of 1970 to 2002, Environmental Protection Agency created a policy that distinguished between types of plant and the type of changes that arises. This leads to initiation of application of new source standards. In the beginning of 2002, the Bush government expanded the scope of permissible grandfathering to great extend. Any desirable grandfathering policies would provide able scopes to initiate desirable incentives and fair profits. Grandfathering environmental policies leads to get some better scopes of reduces the pollution and other forms of natural hazards. Not always all old policies can be discarded as some old policies have their significance in existing situations also.

(c) Stanley Street Labs, 2008