[greenyes] Bush Administration Approach to Mercury Standard

["Peter Anderson" <anderson@no.address>]

Washington Post March 8, 2005; Page A09

EPA Distorted Mercury Analysis, GAO Says

By Shankar Vedantam

The Environmental Protection Agency distorted the analysis of its 
controversial proposal to regulate mercury pollution from power plants, 
making it appear that the Bush administration's market-based approach was 
superior to a competing scheme supported by environmentalists, the 
nonpartisan Government Accountability Office said yesterday.

Rebuking the agency for a lack of "transparency," the report said the EPA 
had failed to fully document the toxic impact of mercury on brain 
development, learning, and neurological functioning. The GAO urged that 
these problems be rectified before the EPA takes final action on the rule.

The analysis follows a critical report by the EPA's inspector general that 
suggested that agency scientists had been pressured to back the approach 
preferred by industry.
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