Posted on 12/20/2011 1:41:26 PM PST by jazusamo
The Environmental Protection Agency will unveil highly-anticipated regulations on Wednesday aimed at curbing mercury and other toxic air pollutants from power plants.
The agency said Tuesday that EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson will make a “significant Clean Air Act announcement” Wednesday at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC. A source closely following the issue confirmed to The Hill that the agency will unveil the final mercury and air toxics standards.
Jackson will be joined at the event Wednesday afternoon by public health experts and industry representatives, EPA said. But the agency did not name the officials.
The long-delayed final regulations — which would require plant operators to install technology to reduce emissions of mercury and other air toxics — have come under fire from industry groups and Republicans. Opponents say the rules will impose a major burden on the economy, cause power plants to shut down and threaten the reliability of the power grid.
The Obama administration has sought to push back on concerns about electric reliability in recent weeks. The Energy Department recently released a report that said the regulations won’t cause power outages.
Environmental and clean air groups note that the regulations will impose major public health benefits. EPA says the rules will prevent up 17,000 premature deaths, 11,000 heart attacks and 120,000 asthma attacks annually.
EPA had been ordered to complete the rule Friday under a court-ordered deadline, but delayed public rollout until this week.
Read more about the regulations here.
When are they going to do something about all of the mercury in these damn “pigtail” lights we’re being forced into buying and then throwing away when they give up the ghost?
The EPA has turned into the 4th and probably the most powerful branch of our government.
They’ve been prepping the public for months through all of their surrogate groups. The radio, print and TV ads hyping the supposed danger of mercury and asthma have been relentless. Connect the Dots! It’s for the Chillrun!
All part of Obeyme’s agenda to destroy the coal industry. (How do ya like me now, UMWA?) He won’t be happy until we are like the Third World where the power is on for four hours at night and the hot water is shut off after April 15th.
Environmental and clean air groups note that the regulations will impose major public health benefits. EPA says the rules will prevent up 17,000 premature deaths, 11,000 heart attacks and 120,000 asthma attacks annually.
They love to invent numbers
The EPA has to be eliminated or at least stripped of most of it’s regulatory power, this is an agency we would have seen in the old USSR.
Don’t those curly fries light bulbs have mercury in them? Maybe the EPA should set some lifetime limits on how many you can break before you face some serious jail time. Sounds good. That would eliminate all breakage. What’s not to like about that?
Last Week.
Congress overturns incandescent light bulb ban
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/16/congress-overturns-incandescent-light-bulb-ban/
December 16, 2011
Absolutely! Citizens unveil their limits on the EPA, and many other un-elected overlords. When will companies wise up and publish the truth about these agencies. They aren’t interested in clean anything, but they are interested in fines.
Thanks for linking, I was just going to post it after locating it.
Yep, it’s pathetic they waited until the last few days to make the rules public.
What about mercury in broken light bulbs?
I’d like to “unveil” a box of pink slips on all of those hippies down at the EPA.
EPA (Eco Stasi) ping.
I’d love to be at your side handing them out with you.
The enviro nutjobs don't seem to give a dang about that, must be selective enviro-nazism.
Asstistics.
(ones derived from the one’s back side.)
More bad law from unaccountable civil “servants”.
How about taking a bunch of those spiral mercury bulbs. Package them all together so they break easily. Enclose them in a couple of ziplock bags. Box them up, label the box fragile (so the U.S. Post Office will be sure to break them) and send them to our federal legislators offices in D.C.
Enclose a big thank you note.
Bingo.
It’s time for the plant owners to submit and obey the law: shut down every single power plant that is not in total compliance with the EPA regulations.
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