Leaked EPA Report Shows Bush Lied About Benefits of Mercury Reduction

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[GranniesAgainstGeorge] Leaked EPA Report Shows Bush Lied

About Benefits of Mercury Reduction

 

 

 

Leaked EPA Report Shows Bush Lied About Benefits of Mercury Reduction

by CactusPat on 04/30/2005 7:04pm.

 

The constant lies, cover-ups, and truth suppression is not going to

end until Bush is impeached or leaves office by others means....

 

AP report: " An internal Environmental Protection Agency report

estimates the Southeast alone could reap up to $2 billion a year in

benefits from reducing mercury pollution - far greater than the $50

million in benefits the agency projected publicly for the entire nation.

 

Critics said the report shows the Bush administration sought to

minimize the benefits of reducing mercury pollution in order to

justify not requiring power plant owners to buy the most effective

technology for lowering mercury emissions.

 

" EPA has a track record of withholding information that doesn't

support their agenda, and this is the latest example, " said Felice

Stadler, a National Wildlife Federation policy specialist.

 

A separate EPA-commissioned study released in February by the

Harvard Center for Risk Analysis estimated there could be $5 billion a

year in public health benefits from a 62.5 percent cut in the mercury

released by power plants. That study too was excluded from

consideration in the new rule EPA released in March.... "

 

The AP report goes on to reveal an heretofore unknown mercury " hot

spot " stretching from the Carolinas to S. Florida.

 

" This report also found a mercury " hot spot " - deposits of the

toxic metal stretching across 50,000 square miles in the South

Atlantic, from North Carolina to South Florida.

 

The existence of such a large mercury concentration raises

questions about public assertions by EPA officials that their new rule

would prevent such hot spots.

 

Announcing the new regulations in March, EPA's air quality chief,

Jeffrey Holmstead, said, " We don't think there will be any hot spots.

We're quite confident of that. "

 

The report said the mercury hot spot off the Atlantic coast was

produced by " significant rainfall in the offshore area that washes out

large amounts of mercury emitted by power plants and other sources. "

It said U.S. pollution is responsible for 37 percent to 68 percent of

the mercury deposits there. "

 

" Profits Over People " , the mantra of Bush and his Corporatist Cabal!

 

 

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