BUSH WANTS TO INCREASE MERCURY EMISSIONS

White House to Ease Mercury Regulations

The Bush administration is working to overturn regulations that would
have required coal and oil-fired power plants to make costly
improvements that would reduced their mercury and nickel emissions.

This according to a report in the Washington Post.

The move is seen as a major concession by the Bush administration to
the power industry.

The Bush administration wants to put in place a "cap and trade"
program that would allow utility companies to buy emission credits
from cleaner-operating plants and put the credits towards dirtier
plants. Environmentalists said the plan would save the utility
industry hundreds of millions but not reduce the level of mercury
pollution.

According to the Washington Post, The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevent recently found that 8 percent of women of childbearing age had
mercury in their blood exceeding levels deemed safe by the EPA.

headlines from:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/03/1552200

link to:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29807-2003Dec2.html

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