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NY law requires collecting old thermostats
Associated Press via Fox ^ | Sunday, December 22, 2013 6:36 PM EST | Staff

Posted on 12/22/2013 5:07:31 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s

Edited on 12/22/2013 5:44:51 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a law requiring manufacturers of thermostats with mercury to collect their old temperature controls in an effort to keep mercury out of the environment.

The measure requires they establish collection programs and in 2015 start filing annual reports on collections.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: agenda21; cuomo; mercury; nannystate; smartgrid; thermostats
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The uber fascist hypocrisy of these scum who force us to buy mercury laden light bulbs.

Broken thermostats can release mercury into the air.

Unlike the millions of CFLs the law requires us to buy.

1 posted on 12/22/2013 5:07:31 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Sponsors say mercury exposure has been shown to impair brain development, with federal estimates suggesting 300,000 to 630,000 infants annually are born in the U.S. with mercury levels high enough to reduce intelligence.

That explains the idiot politicians


2 posted on 12/22/2013 5:10:38 PM PST by logitech (It is time.)
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The collection goal is 15,500 for 2015, with state conservation officials required to set goals for 2016 through 2023.

What's that in CFLs?

I guess they don't want people making quick and easy motion detector switches.

3 posted on 12/22/2013 5:11:11 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Honeywell has been doing this for years


4 posted on 12/22/2013 5:11:38 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
I recall as a kid we'd somehow get a hold of a small bead of mercury on occasion and we used to play with it.And after all that there's nothing wrong...nothing wrong with me....nothing aaaaarrrrrgggggh!
5 posted on 12/22/2013 5:12:21 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

And in our household, every cut was treated with real Mercurochrome.


6 posted on 12/22/2013 5:12:23 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: logitech

Kids like me used to play with mercury because it had odd characteristics. Does that explain my sometimes irrelevant posts?


7 posted on 12/22/2013 5:13:20 PM PST by apoliticalone
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To: ChildOfThe60s

First they came for the Lead paint, but I was np painter so it mattered not.

Then they came for Cigarettes, but I didn’t Smoke, so it mattered not

Now they want my damned thermostat.

Where does it end.


8 posted on 12/22/2013 5:15:05 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
100%
9 posted on 12/22/2013 5:15:30 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

The sun is known to cause retinal burn collect that Cuomo.


10 posted on 12/22/2013 5:16:03 PM PST by Red Steel
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Punish the makers of mercury thermostats, but pretend like the HAZMAT situation caused by CFL doesn't exist.

This is the same thing as letting eagles be slaughtered by wind farms by the hundreds while punishing the oil industry for the one or eagles they accidentally kill.

11 posted on 12/22/2013 5:16:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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mercury exposure has been shown to impair brain development...

You'd think the statist politicians would value the mercury vote!
12 posted on 12/22/2013 5:17:00 PM PST by golux
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To: Gay State Conservative

I think every kid back in the day played with mercury.


13 posted on 12/22/2013 5:17:02 PM PST by Red Steel
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To: ChildOfThe60s

The modern American political class is criminally insane. They are the living explanation for historical phenomena like inquisitions, witch trials and yes, Stalin, Pol Pot and The Third Reich. Rapacious lunatics with power.


14 posted on 12/22/2013 5:17:17 PM PST by VR-21 (Next Stop, Willoughby.)
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“New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a law requiring manufacturers of thermostats with mercury to collect their old temperature controls in an effort to keep mercury out of the environment. “

And just exactly where did mercury come from ?


15 posted on 12/22/2013 5:19:44 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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I love it when they go on about mecury levels in lakes in California only to find out it has come from natural sources. Same with oil leaks off the coast.

Recently, some group went after pharmacuetical companies for having mecury in vaccines. Seemingly, a very small amount of mercury in a vaccine allows certain vaccines to go unrefrigerated. This is extremely important when vaccinated people in Africa, central America, etc. It is hard enough to get vaccines to these places without lugging a fridge along.

I find it hard to believe that were every thermostat in the US to be mishandled that it would cause serious health or environmental impacts.

Same thing with the plastics in canned goods. The plastic lining alledgedly is a carcinogen, but the real numbers show far more would die from botulistic canned goods than would ever die from cancer laced cans.


16 posted on 12/22/2013 5:21:14 PM PST by rey
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To: Dr. Sivana

yeah my mom used that on me. if she was out of iodine.


17 posted on 12/22/2013 5:21:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

this is big brother think.

if we declare it fine, it’s fine. if we declare it bad, it’s bad. do not effing argue with us or we’ll shoot your dog and take your house.


18 posted on 12/22/2013 5:23:00 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
And in our household, every cut was treated with real Mercurochrome.

Remember tincture of iodine? Detergent with Phosphates ? Model airplane glue with acetone ? Carbon Tetrachloride ? Darvons ?

19 posted on 12/22/2013 5:26:26 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (I forgot what my tagline was supposed to say)
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…in an effort to keep mercury out of the environment.
Guess these genii never heard of cinnabar? We can only get stuff out of the environment, after all.
20 posted on 12/22/2013 5:28:19 PM PST by Olog-hai
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