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Thursday, February 25th, 2016

States Just Asked The Supreme Court To Halt Another Pollution Rule

Author:     Samantha Page
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     Feb 24, 2016 12:05 pm
 Link: States Just Asked The Supreme Court To Halt Another Pollution Rule
Stephan:   The Republican Party is dangerous to the health and well being of humans and the planet itself. Why do I say this? This report is an example of what I mean. Note that the states involved are all Red value states. The party is not amenable to facts, and makes decisions based on emotion rationalized through either theology or ideology or both. The Trump campaign is the apotheosis of the trend.
More than a dozen states have advisories on eating fish from rivers, streams, and lakes, due to mercury contamination. Credit: Charlie Neibergall/AP

More than a dozen states have advisories on eating fish from rivers, streams, and lakes, due to mercury contamination.
Credit: Charlie Neibergall/AP

If you live in one of these 20 states — Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, or Wyoming — your attorney general just asked Justice John Roberts to let power plants keep putting mercury the environment.

In a petition filed Tuesday, those states asked the Supreme Court to stay the Mercury Air Toxics Standard, which was issued by the EPA in 2014 and has been bouncing around the courts ever since.

The standard, commonly known as MATS, was the culmination of more than two decades of effort to limit the amount of mercury from coal-fired power plants. Methylmercury, the compound that comes from power plants, is a powerful neurotoxin that can affect coordination, impair speech and […]

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