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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: SiouxPal who wrote (37755)9/8/2005 8:27:57 PM
From: Karen Lawrence   of 362074
 
Bush says mercury-pollution poses no threat: The Clinton administration—after cleaning up other big mercury sources such as medical and municipal incinerators—set in motion a plan to require all coal-burning power plants to control mercury pollution by 2008.

But the power industry lobby went to work, led by Tom Kuhn, head of the Edison Electric Institute and a former college classmate of President Bush (as well as a Bush “Ranger” fundraiser). Kuhn’s connections and cash worked.

In March, EPA announced it was rescinding the Clinton plan, and substituting an industry-supplied alternative. The polluter plan permits power companies to buy the right to spew out mercury from other companies—a feature that could lead to toxic “hot spots” in areas near power plants that buy such pollution “credits.” The Bush plan, written by a former power company lobbyist, also would give power companies up to 20 more years to clean up compared to the Clinton approach. As the Congressional Research Service reported in April, the net effect of the rule appears to “postpone until the 2020s direct regulation of mercury.”

The Bush administration advanced two phony arguments to support its industry-friendly approach: 1) that mercury isn’t really toxic; and 2) there’s no “commercially available” technology available to clean it up.

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