Thursday, December 07, 2006
Eat lead, suckers!
And breath it too, thanks to the hard work of Our Dear Incompetent Leader and his evil minions. After years of efforts to remove this heavy metal that, when ingested, turns intelligent children into mouth breathing Republicans, ODIL has decided that we have reached a point where there is now too little lead in the air.
The Bush administration is considering doing away with health standards that cut lead from gasoline, widely regarded as one of the nation's biggest clean-air accomplishments.Ya see, without the proper levels of lead in the air the Republican party may disappear in the near future. Can't let that happen.
Battery makers, lead smelters, refiners all have lobbied the administration to do away with the Clean Air Act limits.
A preliminary staff review released by the Environmental Protection Agency this week acknowledged the possibility of dropping the health standards for lead air pollution. The agency says revoking those standards might be justified "given the significantly changed circumstances since lead was listed in 1976" as an air pollutant.
The EPA says concentrations of lead in the air have dropped more than 90 percent in the past 2 1/2 decades.
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