Kerry and Senators Chide EPA for Disregarding Mercury Study

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Kerry and Senators Chide EPA for Disregarding Mercury Study
25 March 2005

The Environment News section of MSNBC has a story today about Democrats speaking out about the EPA’s disregard for the recent Mercury Study.

The Environmental Protection Agency's decision to ignore researchers' analysis of possible health benefits from reducing mercury pollution from power plants was criticized Tuesday by Democrats in Congress.

"Why is the EPA suppressing the evidence that mercury pollution can be controlled better and faster?" asked Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.

EPA officials said the study by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis wasn't submitted until Feb. 22, more than a month after the deadline the agency set for considering new data. The agency published its new regulations on mercury pollution from power plants on March 15.

In a press release on this subject on March 22nd, John Kerry said:

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sorry had to laugh at the "disclaimer"

They are as broken as everything Bush has touched.

His willingness to fight for the environment is noble.

Other dems like hillary are absent on this issue

:dem:

he's got our backs on this issue, too.

Republicans excuses for doing nothing about mercury:

1. Mercury is not really bad. Its toxicity is overblown.

2. Most of it comes from other countries and blows into the United States so our hands are tied.

3. The technology to remove mercury from power plant emissions is so expensive it would bankrupt the utilities.

4. It only affects fish in the oceans.

5. We're doing more than Clinton did.

6. This needs to be studied more.

7. Mercury has created a new consumer-friendly product -- a tuna that doubles as a thermometer.

OK, I made up that last one. But I've read all the others.