The EPA never lets facts or sound science get in the way of its political objectives.
The latest fact-less pollution spewing from the EPA is hysteria over the supposed need to save us from “mercury” being emitted from American power plants.
Willis Eschenbach, writing in “Watts Up With That?” thoroughly shreds the EPA’s bogus claims about the dangers of us all dying from mercury poisoning in the near future.
Eschenbach did something EPA bureaucrats would never think of doing. He looked at scientific facts to reach his conclusions. How refreshing.
He discovered, for example, that U.S. power plants emit only 1% of mercury into the atmosphere. The ocean is the largest emitter of atmospheric mercury. Should the EPA ban the ocean? Other large emitters are lightly vegetated land areas, forests, volcanoes, and geothermal vents. Will Lisa Jackson ban these? Perhaps she should just ban the whole environment.
Read Eschenbach’s article at Watts Up With That?
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With their new energy saving and environment friendly light bulbs there is now more mercury in more homes in America than ever before . TWITS !
And just wait until those curly light bulbs start breaking!!! TWITS is right!
But, BUCK! YOUR idea, though definitely a common SENSE one, won't be utilized! THEY can't be BOTHERED with facts! It doesn't PAY as well as a half-ashed theory! Our planet in MY opinion was created with a built-in recovery system that "man" could NEVER duplicate! They may IMITATE it but they will eventually get blown away by Mother Nature! I BELIEVE that the BIGGEST man-made atmospheric pollution source comes from JET FUEL! At 35,000 ft alt, they are going 24/7, hundreds of thousands of jets spewing poison gasses into the AIR! Instead of "FUNDING" a half billion dollar "LOSER" like Solyndra, why didn't our POTUS fund RESEARCH to come up with a cleaner, more efficient, cheaper JET FUEL? Because IT doesn't pay as well either! And of course he has already COMMITTED himself to HIS Middle Eastern creators and THEIR AGENDA! PERISH the THOUGHT that we compete with his Foreign billionaire Oil Barons! WE have more readily available energy sources that emit VERY LITTLE destructive gasses! But we WILL NOT be able to get to ANY of it as long as this "rubber crutch" is in the White House!
SURE BUT THEY ARE MADE IN CHINA SO IT IS OK TO DAMAGE THE ATMOSFARE, IF THEY WHERE MADE IN THE US THEN ALL HELL WOULD BREAK LOOSE. WHAT A STUPID BUNCH THEY GOT WORKING IN THE EPA. THE INSTIGETHER INCLUDED. THE BEAST, PELOSI, HARRY RIED AND THE ONE THAT WENT INTO POLITICS BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT A JOB AND WORK FOR A LIVING. THIS MISSFITS NEED TO BE GOTTEN READ OF AND SOON BEFORE IT IS TO LATE.
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Well DUH ! This EPA is nothing more than a pea and shell game. They forced Americans to buy new light bulbs that operate like old style fluorescent bulbs and the element that makes them work………MERCURY ! It's really a shame that people are so brain dead nowadays that they allow the giverment to pee on their legs and tell them it's raining and the people believe it.
And..don't forget..made in China…where will all the mercury from those stupid bulbs go??
Throw out the agenda, the EPA, and the entire Obama administration for the sake of climate sanity.
Is there anyone who truly believes that anything this administration does is intended to accomplish good for the country? Doesn't this meet all the qualifications, like everything else they do, for the Alinsky model of driving us into bankruptcy as quickly as possible, to facilitate forcing socialism on us? This is but another business-crippling measure. It actually frightens me to hear people say "He just doesnt get it" or "He's ignorant of economics." Pulling off the trump he has underway requires only mendacity and raw arrogance.
Whatever good was left of the EPA has been infiltrated and hijacked by this administration to aid and abet in the destruction of our once prosperous country. Mercury is only another weapon to brainwash us into another degree of submission to their agenda. I'm 67 and as kids we would entertain ourselves rolling mercury around in our hands and I don't believe doing that has put me any where near my death bed.
How about the mercury in those crummy liberal light bulbs????? The EPA are a bunch of phonies!!!!!
Just what the EPA needs, another fact based report to throw them into a tailspin. They will probably have to ignore this, the truth hurts.
Blame Obama, the inept congress and the media for allowing this travesty to occur. We should not be led by unelected bureaucrats in any portion to the government. A strong congress would prevent this.
For heavens sake, get vocal! Spread this to everyone you meet, knock on doors, volunteer at the polls, provide transportation to those who need it, and VOTE . . .Do ANYTHING you can do to get this crooked admnistration out of our White House. OBAMA MUST GO, along with his entire corrupt band of czars & cronies!
Frank. You misspelled mercury (…of us all dying from mercy poisoning…)
Kind of amusing but definately unconstitutional. Did they not with the help of GE in trying to outlaw all incandescent light bulbs that are cheap with the enrgy saving flourescent light bulbs? Well folks, those flourescent light bulbs contain Mercury yes Hg on Mendaleif's Periodic Tables. It seams like the message from one department does get through to the other department. The government with the US Coast Guard spent millions of dollars on the LAMP (Light Automation and Maintenance Program) upgrading that removed all of those beautiful Rotating Fresnell Optics (Navigation Light) that were set on pools of Mercury within those lighthouses. Of all of the Light Keepers that existed and worked at these light stations I never heard of or read where anyone of them died of Mercury Poisoning. What is more what happened to most of those Optics? Some made it to museums.