Governing: Do new air quality rules announced by the Environmental Protection Agency in December raise the risk that some electrical utilities could have reliability issues in keeping the lights on? That was a chief question debated by attendees at a forum Tuesday in Washington, D.C. jointly hosted by the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Utility regulators from states relying on coal power for electricity cautioned that without flexibility in the new regulations, consumers could face reliability and cost issues.

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