This patchwork, plus changing environmental regulation, explains why so many utilities have avoided building new plants for years.

ECONOMIST: Charge ahead

The Sheriff of LaGrange County Terry Martin thinks this is a regulation worth changing.

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No citizen or business can keep up with the changing spending, taxation and regulation without spending incredible amounts of time, effort and money.

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Further, it is in industries in which technology is rapidly changing that the impact of regulation on new start-ups, and hence on productivity growth, may be more significant than for the economy as a whole.

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The UK government's legislative programme includes plans to scrap ID cards, a referendum on changing the voting system and tighter regulation of the financial sector.

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Industry groups, though, maintain that self-regulation is preferable to government requirements for a fast-changing, global medium like the Internet.

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The Commission is working on regulation for short-selling, looking into dark pools and flash trading and changing some of its staff members all at the same time.

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