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To: koan who wrote (9911)	2/21/2012 10:14:22 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 85487

Since you have brumar on ignore, I'll repost his post, but since you probably have me on ignore someone else should repost this to you. U.S. power plants actually contribute a mere 3% of the total MERCURY deposited in computer-modeled American watersheds, ..... the agency’s estimates for MERCURY exposure risks are solely for “hypothetical female subsistence consumers” who daily eat almost a pound of fish that they themselves catch in U.S. streams, rivers, and lakes over a 70-year lifetime. That’s less than 1% of U.S. women. [ Hell, it's probably ZERO! "female subsistence consumers?" A pound of fish a day? Where the hell does such a person exist? Mama Boucher from The Waterboy? ] For the rest of American women (who eat mostly ocean fish, purchased at a grocery, on a far less regular basis), EPA’s rules are irrelevant .... the probability that all the EPA’s improbable scenarios will actually happen is virtually zero; the likelihood that its new regulations will benefit human health is also zero. ....readmsg.aspx?msgid=27925398