I have a different take on it being in management. It is not my job to run a machine but I could learn just like I can put in my own OWB. Furthermore companies are in business to make $ and if you hadn't noticed, in the last 40 years we have international competition. In China they get paid nothing, have no EPA, no OSHA, and no union. It is tough competing with them and our politicians keep making it harder and then they wine that bad American businesses are sending jobs overseas. They need to take responsibility. It is no secret that this administration is anti-business and has gone after, via the EPA, anything with at smokestack.
But back on topic, the problem is that OWB's smoke and people will put them within 50' of the neighbors. You can not regulate ignorance. I do not believe that any, even the gasifiers, produce no smoke when newly loaded or off cycle. So in typical fashion this is more drivven by the OWB manufacturers to specify out the competition. The result will be that 3-4 companies survive the regulation/testing costs and prices will go up while choices go down.
If you think the oil companies give a hoot about OWB's you have been watching too much NBC or listening to too many teleprompter speeches.
JMO, sorry for the rant but I believe in private property rights and I hate being told that I can't cut down a tree, have a closeline, have a satelite dish, or keep a junk car on my own property. But as you know, good fences make good neighbors (or acreage) and since smoke doesn't obey fences and we can't legislate away ignorance the result will be that Central Boiler and a few others will be the only options available in PA.