A big one for the Obama Admin's plus column: New EPA mercury rules are a bona fide Big Deal

[swag]

http://www.grist.org/fossil-fuels/2011-12-21-the-mercury-rules-announced-today-are-a-bona-fide-big-deal

by David Roberts

Wednesday, at long last, the EPA unveiled its new rule covering mercury and other toxic emissions from coal- and oil-fired power plants.

Anyone who pays attention to green news will have spent the last two years hearing a torrent of stories about EPA rules and the political fights over them. It can get tedious. After a certain point even my eyes glaze over, and I'm paid to follow this stuff.

But this one is a Big Deal. It's worth lifting our heads out of the news cycle and taking a moment to appreciate that history is being made. Finally controlling mercury and toxics will be an advance on par with getting lead out of gasoline. It will save save tens of thousands of lives every year and prevent birth defects, learning disabilities, and respiratory diseases. It will make America a more decent, just, and humane place to live.

. . . more at link above.

[rhett o rick]

1. Bravo. nm

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thank you, swag, for posting this.

This is the kind of thing that I voted for Obama over...

None of the current Republican retards would ever take this position.

[appal_jack]

3. +1 for Peggy's sentiment. K&R for OP. n/t

[Armin-A]

6. id like to think du is an open minded progressive liberal website

that isnt stuck in its ways and can bend and flex to give credit where credit is due

[drm604]

5. K&R for the good news