Sunday, December 10, 2006

 

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Bush regime mulls removing lead from list of pollutants

U.S. environmental regulators are considering removing lead, a heavy metal linked to learning problems in children, from a list of regulated pollutants because past rules have greatly reduced levels of the toxin. [...] Now one of the leading emitters of lead pollution is the battery industry. An environmentalist said the EPA was pressured to review the status of lead as a pollutant by industry. "The EPA would be cutting a big sweetheart deal for the lead smelter industry if they revoked the listing," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group Clean Air Watch. He said the lead assessment was an example of the EPA subordinating the expertise of agency scientists. [...] In a letter last July to the EPA, industry group the Battery Council International urged the agency to "delete lead from the criteria pollutants."
Words fail me.
Comments:
My. GOD.

Lead's been known to be toxic for over a century.

Why don't they just allow Union Carbide to dump it in kids' cereal, while they're at it?
 
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