Not Just GHGs - House GOP Seeking To Eliminate Rules For Mercury, Other Toxins From Cement Plants

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WASHINGTON, DC, January 11, 2011 (ENS) - Republicans in Congress are introducing legislation to curtail the role of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act and to prevent and roll back regulations intended to reduce air pollution such as mercury emissions from cement plants.

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On January 6, House Republicans announced a Congressional Review Act resolution that seeks to undo U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rules to control toxic emissions from cement plants. The finalized rules would reduce cement plants' emissions of mercury, hydrogen chloride and particulate matter by more than 90 percent.

EPA scientists have estimated the rules would prevent up to 2,500 premature deaths and thousands of heart and respiratory incidents and save billions of dollars in health costs each year. "Without these important EPA rules, our families will continue to be exposed to mercury and other toxic pollution from the Lafarge plant in Ravena, New York," said Susan Falzon, with Friends of Hudson, a nonprofit group that works to protect public health and the environment in New York's Hudson River Valley. "It sickens me that some of our elected leaders are trying to remove these protections."

The New York Departments of Environmental Conservation and Public Health currently are reviewing Lafarge's plan to modernize its Ravena cement plant. A Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Draft Permit for the modernization have been issued for public comment. "These new EPA rules mean less death and disease from pollution in communities hosting dirty kilns," said Becky Bornhorst, chair of the nonprofit group Downwinders at Risk. "The cement industry wants you to believe meeting the new regulations will drive them out of business, but that is simply not true."

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http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jan2011/2011-01-11-01.html

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1. They just want more deranged people

since mercury causes insanity as it poisons you...

[Nihil]

2. It's a career continuation plan for them ...

... seeing as how the more deranged you become, the more likely you are
to vote for the thieving bastards who are making your destruction into
their income security.