EPA delays stricter smog, mercury limits

(AP) – 3 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying new rules that would impose stricter limits on two key pollutants — smog and mercury — drawing complaints from environmental groups who say the Obama administration appears to be caving in to political pressure from congressional Republicans.

"It is hard to avoid the impression that EPA is running scared from the incoming Congress," said Frank O'Donnell, president of the advocacy group Clean Air Watch.

Republicans took control of the House and gained in the Senate in the midterm elections, and many GOP lawmakers have vowed to target the EPA for what they call a series of job-killing regulations. Lawmakers from both parties — especially in industrial states in the Northeast and Midwest — have complained about the boiler rule, which they say could place an added burden on business.

Still, environmental groups said the two delays — announced on successive days — appeared to be an attempt to placate GOP critics and stave off efforts in Congress to thwart EPA regulation.

"We're not going to let EPA regulate what they've been unable to legislate," said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., the incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Upton promised numerous hearings on the EPA under his watch.

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They are grouping it with mercury, There thoughts makes sense.

They think progressives are the bad side by religious doctrine to rationalize their ideas of society.


That makes sense thanks.

Battle of five armies, Eagles. Got it.


So the Republicans are convinced that the progressive side is the bad side. Would be nice if they explained there doctrine, and what they believe to support that.

Note there are some good ideas on both sides, but on topics of tax cuts and social safety nets, it is pretty obvious.

The government makes no sense.

http://www.epa.gov/cfl/cflcleanup.html

Don't make shit up -- it's bad for your karma.

Tesha

Now he's doing what he "has to" do in order to prevent getting teabagged in the primary.
And then more mercury and whatever the hell else gets into the atmosphere will find and enter the bodies of our children.

Fred Upton's from southwestern Michigan, right directly in the path of where BP dumps their current, legal, 2-pound per annum mercury emmission into Lake Michigan from a couple facilities in Indiana.

He should be ashamed.

Do you have any idea how miniscule that is? That's equivalent to 1 second in 41,000 years! Is it even measurable at that level?

GOOGLE "Endocrine Disruption + Mercury" for details.

Besides, mercury doesn't belong in Lake Michigan.