Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Hot Topic

From Energy biz Insider

The debate over mercury emissions is once again reaching a feverish pitch.
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"Trading has the potential to lead to static or increased emissions in some areas of the United States," scientists write in the new BioDiversity Research Institute report published in BioScience.
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"I have long-argued that EPA used faulty science in order to justify an insufficient mercury rule, and these studies prove it," says Senator Collins [(R-ME)]. "EPA misrepresented the mercury problem based on computer data which had not been peer-reviewed, and then put out a rule which does not account for mercury hotspots ..."

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