U.S. Environmental-Compliance Construction: "The Glass is Half-Full, but Will Get Fuller"

SUGAR LAND--September 23, 2009--Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Construction spending on environmental-compliance projects for U.S. coal-fired generators has slowed in recent years, but is poised to increase in 2010 and beyond, according to Britt Burt, Industrial Info Resources Vice President of Research - Power Industry. "Environmental-compliance spending has been a little slow recently. I'd say the glass is half-full now, and I'm very optimistic that it will be filling over the next two to three years," Burt said in an interview. Some forecasters predict environmental compliance spending could hit $6 billion annually, he said.