New backers are thin on the ground, while existing ones are not willing to pay top dollar for the privilege of continuing.
While legal disputes have led the state to place a moratorium on granting new oyster leases, existing ones are often passed down from father to son, thousands of acres staying in a family through generations, whether they produce oysters or not.
The bill that would replace it — the Chemical Safety Improvement Act — would call on the EPA to review all new chemicals; existing ones are optimistically presumed to be safe.
No fewer than 21 proposals to build plants or expand existing ones are before the state.
Many new facilities and expansions of existing ones are in the works.
Sales of existing ones are rising — up nearly 10 percent in May from the same month of 2011.
Natural selection means the existing ones are in constant danger that pathogens will evolve resistance to them.
New art museums, or large additions to existing ones, are being planned, built and opened in more than a dozen cities.
The new algorithm has no immediate applications, since existing ones are faster and their error probability can be made so small that it is practically zero.
"We need completely new rules because the way the existing ones are written almost seems like they are not meant to work".
But insiders worry that the necessary text books for the new curriculum do not as yet exist, while existing ones are wholly inappropriate.
