Hey we're suing Bush!

[Goldeneye]

http://www.dailycardinal.com/news/2005/04/12/News/State.Joins.Mercury.Lawsuit.Against.Bush.Administration-921084.shtml

Wisconsin will join a lawsuit against the Bush administration for being negligent on federal mercury standards, Gov. Jim Doyle announced Monday.

"Wisconsin is a leader in controlling mercury emissions," Doyle said. "But unfortunately we can't stop mercury from other states from polluting our waters. It's time for the Bush Administration to follow the Clean Air Act and ensure that Wisconsin's citizens are protected from the devastating economic and health risks of mercury pollution."

Doyle is concerned the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rules that call for only a 21 percent reduction in mercury emissions by 2010 and is allowing 19 states to increase their emissions until then.

Doyle said the EPA should be doing more, citing two recent permits for coal-fired power plants-which Doyle said are the largest unregulated source of mercury to the state's lakes and rivers.

[RawMaterials]

1. Good Job keep it up

We all need to stand up and sue, before we cant and or we are in concentration camps for thinking anything but the word of king G

[neuvocat]

2. kick

[sam sarrha]

3. Mercury is a diversion,over 800 TONS of Uranium is released yearly by coal

generators, in 1982 ..801 tons of Uranium238 and 11,371 pounds of Uranium 235 and 1971 tons of Thorium.

the math for Plutonium production from uranium by background Cosmic Rays processes 2.2mlgr, which doubles the Radio-toxicity of the uranium and thorium material released.

Uranium as a heavy metal is probably the second most toxic pollutant released, it was said that when the plants shut down during the last black out the hospital emergency rooms were literally 'emptied' of respiratory cases.

is Uranium and thorium a factor of 1 in 3 Americans getting cancer..?

is Mercury, although a serious problem , a Rovarian diversion for something astronomically more serious and incidious..??

Link: http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev26-34/text/colman.html

[Broca]

4. Strange for Doyle to be caught

"citing two recent permits for coal-fired power plants-which Doyle said are the largest unregulated source of mercury to the state's lakes and rivers."

Last year he had his picture on the front page of local papers while he took part in the groundbreaking for one of the very plants he mentions (the Weston 4).

[gizmo1979]

5. I still don't quite

get the clean air act .If you have 1 good plant,then you get to have a bad plant and they offset?What if you live next to the bad plant?Sounds absurd.

[AllyCat]

6. Thank God, but I have to wonder

if we are only joining this in hopes of getting some federal money to use (just like the tobacco suits). There is no logic to my concern...just knee-jerk "I don't trust any of them" thinking.