EPA tells whopping lie about benefits of mercury pollution reduction
In March, the so-called Environmental Protection Agency reported that the country could receive $50 million in benefits for reducing mercury pollution.
Here is the truth: The Southeast alone could received 40 times that--$2 billion--for making a reduction in mercury pollution.
Why the difference? The EPA lied. I know you're shocked.
An internal report shows that the Bush administration tried to minimize the benefits of mercury pollution reduction so that power plant owners would not have to buy the necessary equipment to lower mercury emissions. The EPA chose to keep this finding a secret. And in February, an EPA-commissioned study conducted by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis concluded that there could be $5 billion a year in public health benefits from a 62.5 percent cut in the mercury released by power plants. The EPA also conveniently omitted that finding.
The revelation of this latest pack of lies from the White House and the EPA comes on the heels of a study concluding that mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants are a probable cause of an increase of autism cases in Texas.
Leave no child behind, indeed. The Bush administration's spectacular disregard for the public welfare is matched only by its ongoing world-class corruption.
America has lost its mind.
Here is the truth: The Southeast alone could received 40 times that--$2 billion--for making a reduction in mercury pollution.
Why the difference? The EPA lied. I know you're shocked.
An internal report shows that the Bush administration tried to minimize the benefits of mercury pollution reduction so that power plant owners would not have to buy the necessary equipment to lower mercury emissions. The EPA chose to keep this finding a secret. And in February, an EPA-commissioned study conducted by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis concluded that there could be $5 billion a year in public health benefits from a 62.5 percent cut in the mercury released by power plants. The EPA also conveniently omitted that finding.
The revelation of this latest pack of lies from the White House and the EPA comes on the heels of a study concluding that mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants are a probable cause of an increase of autism cases in Texas.
Leave no child behind, indeed. The Bush administration's spectacular disregard for the public welfare is matched only by its ongoing world-class corruption.
America has lost its mind.
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