BREAKING: EPA, Bush busted in mercury cover up

[montana500]

wow front page top story on msnbc.com !


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7677494/

[Oreo]

1. drip drip drip

Shrub wants everybody to be as stupid as him so he think mercury pollution is a good thing

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.

[one_true_leroy]

14. nah...

the admin is just gonna shut down the EPA.

kill the messenger!!

[burn the bush]

2. shrub has got to go. He is killing the planet. Mercury is serious shit

it's causing deformities, autism and who knows what else.

[rocktivity]

3. Smoke, meet gun

An internal Environmental Protection Agency report estimates the Southeast alone could reap up to $2 billion a year in benefits from reducing mercury pollution — 40 times more than the $50 million in benefits the agency projected publicly for the entire nation.

...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.

It did not estimate the cost of achieving this reduction but said reducing national mercury emissions by 30 percent to 100 percent would produce Southeast benefits of between $600 million to more than $2 billion.

...“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.

And don't forget that they re-opened Ground Zero to commuters and workers while there were still highly toxic gases in the area!

What more proof does America need that Bush's only constituents are his "haves and have-mores," as he put it in Farenheit 9/11? This is SO impeachable!

:headbang:
rocknation

[King Coal]

11. Who can do the math?

"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."

"Technology to significantly reduce emissions, the EPA estimates, would cost $1.8 billion a year for the industry, and eventually consumers. That’s 0.5% of the industry’s annual revenue of $400 billion."



Too bad Smirk isn't "literate" in math.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Yep

I read on reopen911.org that a lot of dogs have died from the air and a lot of kids have problems. And it's just like how Bush does with information. Holding it so they can do whatever they want. What can be done about this?

[montana500]

4. the environment is going to play a good part in the future

of unseating these clowns. Global warming is the single biggest Dittohead credibility ruiner we have.

[otohara]

5. I Used To Think The EPA Were The Good Guys

have they always been this corrupt?

[Roland99]

6. Well...if Christine Todd Whitman wasn't "Right" enough, what's that say?

[rocktivity]

10. The EPA has been corrupt since Bush put Christine Whitman in charge

Her mission was to rubber-stamp his anti-environmental policies and dismantle the ones that were cutting into the proftis of his super-rich campaign contributors. She came to realize that it was only a matter of time before she ended up a fall guy, and that the Bush empire had no future plans for her. So she resigned from the post.

:headbang:
rockantion

[riverwalker]

7. then he limits class action suits n/t

[Stand and Fight]

8. Insidious.

Absolutely insidious. And they will get away with this -- just like they do everything else. I could puke... :puke:

[paparush]

9. Shrub totally disregards science..

His admin will claim that there is no way to REALLY know how much Mercury there is in the air/soil/water and that no one REALLY knows what the 'possible' side effects might be.

Shrub's response to damning scientific evidence is to Rewrite, Replace, and Remove.

[PurityOfEssence]

12. "We're not gonna do anything that hurts our economy."

That's what he said before his first European trip when asked about Kyoto. It's all about money, and all about money IN THE SHORT TERM. That is his god; as John Edwards used to say in his stump speech: "the only thing George Bush respects is wealth."