Monday, December 26, 2011

Have Some Mercury With that Vote

Filed under: Environment — by Will Kirkland @ 7:59 pm
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Krugman on the GOP trying to kill a great EPA ruling:

 

These rules [Environmental Protection Agency standards on mercury and air toxics for power plants]  are long overdue: we were supposed to start regulating mercury more than 20 years ago. But the rules are finally here, and will deliver huge benefits at only modest cost.

So, naturally, Republicans are furious

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