NYT - E.P.A. Will Not Withdraw Its Mercury Plan

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E.P.A. Will Not Withdraw Its Mercury Plan
By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Published: April 30, 2004


ASHINGTON, April 29 — Rebuffing pressure from Democrats and environmental groups, the Environmental Protection Agency announced on Thursday that it would not withdraw its plan for regulating mercury from coal-fired power plants.

But the agency's administrator, Michael O. Leavitt, said it would take an additional three months before issuing a final regulation. The new deadline, March 15, 2005, would become especially significant if control of the White House changes in the November election.

Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, is among the 45 senators and 10 state attorneys general who have asked the agency to withdraw the proposal.

The proposal allows power plants to buy and sell the rights to emit mercury, with a target of reducing emissions 70 percent by 2018. Environmental groups argue that the Clean Air Act calls for strict plant-by-plant controls by 2007.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/30/politics/30MERC.html>

[pfitz59]

1. Do downwind residents have a say?

Thought not.....

[fearnobush]

2. This is the one issue I have a changing my mercury poisoned *

voting brother away from the dark side. He has mercury poisoning. pretty bad too, he is sick all the time, got his fillings removed, etc., yet has not fully come to grips with the evils of the *. He is now in a state of hating politics and appears to be leaning no vote at this point in time but does believe he has been lied too.

[pinniped]

3. POS chimpy is a champion of the environment...

Will we still be here in 2018?