Bush Considering Doing Away With Lead Air Pollution Limits

[RedEarth]

The Bush administration is considering doing away with health standards that cut lead from gasoline, widely regarded as one of the nation's biggest clean-air accomplishments.

Battery makers, lead smelters, refiners all have lobbied the administration to do away with the Clean Air Act limits.

A preliminary staff review released by the Environmental Protection Agency this week acknowledged the possibility of dropping the health standards for lead air pollution. The agency says revoking those standards might be justified "given the significantly changed circumstances since lead was listed in 1976" as an air pollutant.

The EPA says concentrations of lead in the air have dropped more than 90 percent in the past 2 1/2 decades. But Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., the incoming chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, called on the agency to "renounce this dangerous proposal immediately," because lead, a highly toxic element, can cause severe nerve damage, especially in children.

Soon after lead was listed as an air pollutant 30 years ago, the Carter administration began removing lead from gasoline. Other big sources of lead in the atmosphere are from solid waste, coal, oil, iron and steel production, lead smelters and tobacco smoke.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061207/ap_on_go_pr_wh/epa_lead_pollution

[Hubert Flottz]

1. IMPEACH...

Before it's too late.

[aquart]

2. Are they deliberately trying to kill us all?

Or would that be merely an "unintended consequence"?

[marmar]

3. Another chart-topper from the Bush administration.....

Get this bull out of the china shop.

[demnan]

4. I swear to God

We won't be safe until this entire administration's heads are on pikes adorning the 14th Street Bridge.

[Horse with no Name]

5. Didn't they do this after Katrina "temporarily"

after the mock gasoline shortage? Made people feel what it was like to do without gasoline and then suspended the laws because of a national emergency?
It's all about the profit for the oil companies.
BUSH HAS GOT TO GO.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. xpost, already a thread in LBN

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2643590&mesg_id=2643590

I posted a link to some background info on tetraethyl lead there:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2643590&mesg_id=2643784

[symbolman]

7. What is NEXT?

LEAD BEER?

ARSENIC Baby formula?

Cyanide "Rub it right on your forehead" Migraine medicine?

A Chicken in every pot, and an ALLIGATOR in every CRIB?

They're INSANE.. Keep repeating it, tell everyone you know, BUSH IS INSANE, until it's on everyone's lips..

[Quantess]

8. Bush probably rubs lead-based cream into his temples every night before bedtime. (EOM)

[QuestionAll...]

9. that could explain his madness. nt

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. I'm convinced the man is the anti-Christ.

What a dark heart he has.

[symbolman]

10. After a BIG BOWL

of LEAD ICE CREAM :)

I bet he DOES think that LEAD is good for you, especially with a little arsenic sprinkled on the top, since he thinks that's okay for KIDS in the water..

Most sickening display of Corporate Favoritism YET I think.. to actually POISON the PUBLIC for MONEY is beyond belief..

Can't even wrap my head around this, esp after watching "An Inconvenience Truth" just last night! :)

[mindfulNJ]

11. WTF?!!!

I freakin give up...:wtf:

[Quantess]

12. Kick

[Disturbed]

13. America cannot allow Bush and Cheney to continue.

Impeach Bush and Cheney on 32 Felony violations of the FISA Law. No investigation required. Bring it on in Jan. '07!!!

[tblue37]

14. Publicize it.

The flap over raisign the limits arsenic in the water got them some very bad responses. Let people know that they want to return to filling the air we breathe with lead.

[Quantess]

22. time for another kick.

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. Maybe we can give him an early retirement package to enduce

him to step down early?

[hvn_nbr_2]

17. Lead in the air down 90%. Let's get it back up.

The Mad Hatter-in-Chief must be chewing on the lead crystal glasses when the Jack Daniels runs out. Or using a lead snorting straw, or something.

[onecent]

18. (If I believed in the Anti Christ) I would say **** is the Anti Christ.. This man

is a doofus from the word GO. I still keep hoping I will wake up and this will have all been a nightmare...and I am still hearing....

" Gore won Florida ". Geez what a frickin' NIGHTMARE.

[sadiesworld]

19. Sorry, but that's just too bizarre.

Why would * propose such a preposterous, previously unspoken goal just as the dems are getting ready to take the majority? Very strange.

[Mend]

20. bush is brain-damaged and he became president,

so what's the problem with killing off some neurons?

[katsy]

21. They can't change the standards because Congress has to approve...

changes in regulations.

The adults have just won Congress!

No way will this be allowed.

[Quantess]

24. Katsy: This would be a good chance to apologize to you.

Weeks/months ago, I flamed you for no good reason. I remember doing so, and I feel contrite. Please accept my apology.

[katsy]

26. Hi Quantessd!

I wanted to contact you also... to say I'm sorry. Very very sorry.

After thinking about everything, I was wrong also.

:pals:

[Quantess]

27. Hi!

You weren't wrong. I was. Thanks for accepting my apology.
:toast:

[bobthedrummer]

23. "Let them breathe lead..." Along with that whiff of "sulphur" ...

There is no more tinfoil.

The BFEE has got to GO.

[nam78_two]

25. K&R/nt