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Howling over EPA Mercury Regulations
GOP lawmakers
pick business over
the unborn
by
toxic mercury lands in water, where it’s
turned into methylmercury, which builds up
in fish. Many pregnant women unwittingly
eat these contaminated fish, and the meth­
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ing nervous systems of their fetuses, pro-
J im H ightower
Why do the Republi­
cans in C ongress hate
unborn babies?
Yeah, I know they pro­
fess to love the unborn. They even consider
them to be "persons" from the very moment
of conception.
Yet, whose interest do you think these
same politicos have chosen to protect when
it comes to regulating an especially nasty
industrial toxin that threatens unborn ba­
bies?
That nasty substance is mercury, a neu­
rotoxin that spews into our air from old,
coal-burning electric power plants. This
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But wait, the lovers of
the unborn aren't
celebrating this move to
stop industry from doing
gratuitous damage to
children's IQs.
ducing babies with impaired IQs, who are
unable to think and learn as they should.
After 20-years of delay forced by lobby­
ists for utilities, the Environmental Protec­
tion Agency finally came out in December
with regulations to control the mercury
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emissions from power plants. Hallelujah —
save the babies!
But wait, the lovers of the unborn aren't
celebrating this move to stop industry from
doing gratuitous damage to children's IQs.
Far from it. GOP lawmakers are now
howling to overturn the EPA's mercury regu­
lations. A bunch of them say they want to kill
the EPA itself to stop such "governmental
interference" in the corporate pursuit of prof­
its. Unborn babies make great politics, but
they don't make big campaign donations. The
GOP goes with whom it really loves.
How ironic that the defenders of mercury
pollution are "mad as a hatter" about the
EPA's protection of children. Maybe they
don't know that the phrase comes from 19th-
century hat makers who used mercury com­
pounds in their work, often causing mental
damage that literally drove them mad.
Jim Hightower is a radio commenta­
tor, writer, and public speaker.
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