And just what are these 140,000 Americans going to die of? Do they tell you?
When I was a kid we got several truck loads of boiler slag from a coal burning power plant to use as drive way fill for our house.
I played in that stuff for a decade. I have yet to die of lead or mercury poisoning after 40 years. No bone cancer or any cancer. No nerve damage.
I also lived near a busy highway during the years before they took lead out of gasoline and I was one of the brightest kids in my class.
Sure there may be sensitive individuals who may be sickened by low level lead and/or mercury levels but how would you ever prove it?
It is almost certain that the poverty caused by the EPA regulations are now causing many times more sickness and death than the small amount of pollution that the regulations are now expensively trying to reduce.
This summer one of the Michigan based ferries across lake Michigan was shut down due to the fact that they dump fly ash in the lake. Funny thing is that the EPA OKs fly ash for filling old water and oil wells.
Have no fear, another ferry was given taxpayer money to upgrade to diesel so they could keep running.