Posted on 11/04/2010 4:13:50 PM PDT by smokingfrog
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency denied on Thursday a petition by several environmental groups to ban lead in fishing tackle, two months after rejecting the groups' attempt to ban it in hunting ammunition.
The EPA said that the petition did not demonstrate that a ban on lead in fishing tackle was necessary to protect against unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment, as required by the Toxic Substances Control Act.
In a letter to the American Bird Conservancy, one of the groups that filed the petition, EPA Assistant Administrator Stephen A. Owens said that a number of steps are being taken to address the concerns of lead in fishing tackle. Among them: limitations of lead in fishing gear on some federal lands; bans or restrictions on the state level; and federal and state outreach and education efforts.
"The emergence of these programs and activities over the past decade calls into question whether the broad rulemaking requested in your petition would be the least burdensome, adequately protective approach," Owens wrote to the conservancy's director of conservation advocacy, Michael Fry.
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NY banned lead sinkers years ago
Had thrown in some hokum about lead contributing to gorebal warming, they would have had a better chance.
They oughta ban lead from Democrat voters’ asses.....
Can we ban bulls**t groups trying to ruin any sportsman activity that bothers their little PETA brain cell?
Why not ban carbon from gasoline too?
Next they'll try to ban fish hooks.
If they haven't already tried...
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