E.P.A. Weakens Controls on Mercury (Paywall)
The new Environmental Protection Agency rule does not eliminate restrictions on the release of mercury, a heavy metal linked to brain damage. Instead, it creates a new method of calculating the costs and benefits of curbing mercury pollution that environmental lawyers said would fundamentally undermine the legal underpinnings of controls on mercury and many other pollutants.
FAST BUCK REPUBLIC (April 16) —
REPUBLICANS, seeking to increase their number,
strive to make everyone dumber.
Their solution: increase pollution,
advance intellect diminution.
After a while, nobody can
think any clearer than Aynie Rand.
Destroying schools and the environment
is, far and away, primary requirement.
To lock in — FOREVER! — their Capitol gains
they dasn't refrain from rotting brains.