SUGAR LAND--December 27, 2011--Written by Brock Ramey, North American Power Research Manager for Industrial Info (Sugar Land, Texas)--This week, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson signed and finalized the agency's boiler Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), formerly known as the Utility Boiler MACT. Certain changes have been made from the proposed to the amended regulation. Facilities now have until 2015 to become compliant with the new regulation.