True, but...
"The Clinton administration proposed reducing mercury emissions in
power plants by 90 percent by 2008. But, thinking he knew better, Bush
has decided to slow that wagon down and instead is proposing to reduce
those emissions by 70 percent by 2018"
Sacramento Bee:
For five years, health advocates have pressured the EPA to set
across-the-board pollution controls that, in the view of some
scientists, would reduce mercury emissions 90 percent nationwide
within three years. Instead, the administration chose last week to
rescind a Clinton-era directive that would have labeled mercury a
toxic pollutant under the Clean Air Act of 1990. Instead of regulating
mercury under that law (signed by Bush's father, President George H.W.
Bush), the administration has proposed a "cap-and-trade" program. The
new rule sets a national cap on mercury emissions and allows companies
to either reduce emissions or buy credits from industries that do so.
In unveiling the new rule, EPA officials said they rejected
tougher controls because the costs to industry would have exceeded the
estimated health benefits. According to the Post, a Harvard University
study actually concluded the opposite. The study, commissioned by the
EPA and co-authored by an agency scientist, concluded the health
benefits of across-the-board pollution cuts could be 100 times higher
than the costs of the EPA proposal. Yet the EPA stripped the Harvard
study from its public documents in unveiling the rule. Congress needs
to find out why.
On 8/2/05, Kevin Graeme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gruss, who was President in 1998 when the FDA decided to top testing
> mercury levels in tuna in order to save money?
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