New federal rule targets harmful mercury emissions

[Tx4obama]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration says 5,000 deaths could be prevented each year under new rules announced Friday to limit the amount of mercury and other harmful pollutants released by industrial boilers and solid waste incinerators.

The planned rules would reduce mercury emissions more than 50 percent by requiring steep and costly cuts from companies operating some 200,000 industrial boilers, heaters and incinerators.

The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the rules Friday and must seek public comment before they are made final.

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[Mnemosyne]

1. Guess it's no surprise someone has unrecced this. Wouldn't want anyone to think

mercury was dangerous or anything.

Sorry my rec only took it to zero, Tx4obama. I tried. :hi:

And :kick:

[Tx4obama]

2. Thank you :) n/t

[TheMadMonk]

4. Nor that the first reply is used to point it out. nt

[tavalon]

5. Our poor bastard child, the unrec, has spawned many bad habits

I think the unreccers here are afraid we might make the connection between (methyl) Mercury emissions being bad and injecting (ethyl) mercury into our bodies being bad. I'm sure they wanted to hush this up before one of us brought that up.

See, the CDC has said there are no safe amounts of mercury to be ingested or inhaled into our bodies. But that same "august" authority says it ain't so if it's being used as a preservative in medications. Some of us have a problem with that disparity and in fact have a problem with the huge cost many of us have had to bear because of that "conventional wisdom".

As far as this goes, I'm happy to see limits placed on mercury contamination in any form.

[kristopher]

3. K&R