Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Grand Ole Pollutin' Party
Bush's environmental policy (and his EPA, full of industry insiders and former lobbyists) stinks.
From the AP:
"If the Bush administration has its way, some factories won't have to report all the pollution spewed from their smokestacks, making it harder for government scientists to calculate the health risks of the air Americans breathe."
Yep, to relieve those poor energy companies of their "regulatory burdens," the new EPA rules "would exempt companies from disclosing their toxic pollution if they claim to release fewer than 5,000 pounds of a specific chemical — the current limit is 500 pounds — or if they store it onsite but claim to release 'zero' amounts of the worst pollutants. Those include mercury, DDT, PCBs and other chemicals that persist in the environment and work up the food chain."
Once again, the Toxic Texan has chosen his buddies in the energy industry over the safety and health of average citizens. Looks like Bush's EPA is delivering a big bag of coal to the American people while the coal-producing plants can keep spewing their pollutants into the air without any attention to protecting public health. Bah humbug.
EPA Would Ease Pollution Reporting Rules - Yahoo! News
From the AP:
"If the Bush administration has its way, some factories won't have to report all the pollution spewed from their smokestacks, making it harder for government scientists to calculate the health risks of the air Americans breathe."
Yep, to relieve those poor energy companies of their "regulatory burdens," the new EPA rules "would exempt companies from disclosing their toxic pollution if they claim to release fewer than 5,000 pounds of a specific chemical — the current limit is 500 pounds — or if they store it onsite but claim to release 'zero' amounts of the worst pollutants. Those include mercury, DDT, PCBs and other chemicals that persist in the environment and work up the food chain."
Once again, the Toxic Texan has chosen his buddies in the energy industry over the safety and health of average citizens. Looks like Bush's EPA is delivering a big bag of coal to the American people while the coal-producing plants can keep spewing their pollutants into the air without any attention to protecting public health. Bah humbug.
EPA Would Ease Pollution Reporting Rules - Yahoo! News
