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>> The administration chose a process "that would support the conclusion they wanted to reach," said John A. Paul, a Republican environmental regulator from Ohio who co-chaired the EPA-appointed advisory panel. <<
First Iraq, now this... And folks said I was being unduly harsh here!
What's that old American Indian saying, "cheat me once, shame on you; cheat me twice, shame on me!" Lots of folks here seem to be willing to give Bush infinite opportunities...
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and do not necessarily reflect those of CNET!
Initiative not the fact that the nay sayers aren't any better informed.
Here is your chance to enrich your knowledge:
http://www.epa.gov/air/clearskies/basic.html
http://www.epa.gov/air/clearskies/clearskies_details.pdf
http://www.eei.org/industry_issues/environment/air/mercury/KeyMercuryIssues.pdf
http://www.epa.gov/air/clearskies/whychng063003.html
The reference dose established by EPa is 0.1 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day, corresponding to a blood level of 5.8 parts per billion. The National Academy of Sciences says this is scientifically justified. The Food and Drug Administration and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) have recommended regulatory levels that are significantly less stringent than EPA?s reference dose. In fact, EPA?s reference dose is three times more stringent than ATSDR?s comparable ?minimal risk level,? and five times more stringent than a reference dose adopted by the World Health Organization. This also puts the FIRST EVER cap on Mercury emissions.
The complaints of "no scientific studies" come from those who disagree but have no better scientific modeling upon which to base their disagreements.
because it sure avoids any familiarity with fact.
Under the "in place" Clean Air Act there is no cap at all for mercury but "trade" is already incorporated.
Molly girl apparently also needs some basic instruction in math and her ardent readers need to familiarize themselves with a couple of descriptive adjectives applicable to themselves -- gullible and uninformed.
One wonders about old Molly's prepubescent exposure to mercury and lead based paints--it would explain much.
and saw my name on a reply post. When I opened my own post to see what was going on, I noticed the date.
JMO
Roger
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"there is a picture, quite a famous one, that you should search out so you will know what is at stake. The picture, by the great photojournalist W. Eugene Smith, is known as "The Madonna of Minamata" and is of a Japanese woman in a hot bath with an expression of terrible sorrow and tenderness on her face as she holds the hopelessly deformed body of her daughter.
"Smith's classic book, "Minamata: Words and Photographs," is about the site of a horrific 1970s case of widespread mercury poisoning. No one who sees Smith's photos can ever forget them. There was a years-long struggle between the townspeople of Minamata and the corporation responsible for the mercury poisoning, which did not want to admit fault. During that struggle, corporate guards beat Smith so badly he lost his eyesight. ...
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"As you may know, one in six American women of child-bearing age already has enough mercury in her blood to put a developing fetus at risk. That's why pregnant women are urged not to eat many ocean and freshwater fish. Mercury also causes heart attacks among adults. "
"If the Clean Air Act, already in place, were simply implemented as it is supposed to be by the Environmental Protection Agency, we would be rid of over 90 percent of mercury emissions in this country by 2008. But, of course, that would cost the power industry a lot of money, and the power industry gives lots of money to politicians. So the EPA came up with a "cap and trade" system, under which power plants can avoid meaningful regulation until after 2025."
"Then, the EPA, whose name is rapidly becoming a morbid joke, had the gall to put out a press release claiming its new rule will cut mercury by 70 percent in 2018. Using the EPA's own figures, it fails to do even that. We'd be lucky to get a 50 percent reduction by 2020, according to Natural Resources Defense Council."
"The worse news is that "cap and trade" allows individual power plants to trade emissions credits, so while some states will have less mercury emission, other states will have enormous increases. God help you if you live near one of these future hotspots. NRDC estimates an 841 percent increase for California, 176 percent in Colorado, 241 percent in New Hampshire and 56 percent in New Jersey."
"It is unconscionable EPA is allowing power companies to trade in a powerful neurotoxin -- it is unprecedented and illegal," said William Becker, director of the bipartisan State and Territorial Air Pollution Program Administrators. "
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But if it isn't good for Bush's friends and Cheney's friends it must be junk science, and if it isn't junk science, then let's just ignore it anyway, it's not going to be a problem for another 20 years, not like Social Security (Oh! yeah, 35 years for that one, Hell all these damn' numbers look the same. Anybody wanna game of golf??).
her figures because they are not to be found in the real world outside her vivid imagination.
I do agree they are not EPA figures though as they appear to be her very own figments of imagination.
... aka KEBF numbers.
Molly's Enviro Whacko Association numbers, or Konkel's Everything's Bush's Fault numbers.
Evie ![]()
they want to sleep together, it means they want to have sex.
When married people say they want to go to bed, they want to go to sleep.
One thing that is fun, about 'in the bedroom' is, add that phrase to the end of your fortune cookie read aloud when you go out to dinner.