Comments on: Cutting Mercury and Protecting America’s Children

By: bizworldusa

bizworldusa — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:29:34 +0000

This is nice post and helpfull piece of of information.This country should be burning clean natural gas which contains no mercury whatsoever.
thank you

By: Auto Insurance Quotes Florida

Auto Insurance Quotes Florida — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 10:30:41 +0000

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By: soon to be unemployed

soon to be unemployed — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:44:21 +0000

lisa, you seemed to have misplaced my first comment, which read,9 power plants down,645 americans soon to be out of work. more to come. save your money, you will need it to pay your electric bill. please print this one.

By: soon to be unemployed

soon to be unemployed — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:46:45 +0000

lisa, please update.

By: Michael Klein

Michael Klein — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:58:15 +0000

Middle Class Worker, most things in life are trade-offs. There are few things in life that don’t have their downsides. In order to lead healthier lives, we may need to put up with higher electric bills and see a slow-down in job growth. But there are ways to compensate. What we can’t compensate for is the enormous damage that atmospheric mercury is capable of causing.

By: Jeff C

Jeff C — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:41:05 +0000

Dear Chris,
You bring up an interesting point, though your conflating a raw mass with a concentration. The OSHA limit is an air concentration, and I believe it’s actually 0.1mg/m^3 . So it depends on the size of the room and the air turn over. Unless the room was smaller then about 50 cubic meters, (which is not particularly large) it would not be over the OSHA limit, and that assumes all the mercury volatilizes and there is no change in the air, which is unlikely.

Not to say mercury from light bulbs is not something to be concerned about, you should certainly properly clean up and dispose of the CFL. But it shouldn’t be used as an argument against other regulation. We should work to reducing all the mercury that might get into the environment and harm our children, and right now coal combustion is a much much larger source then CFLs.

Thanks

By: Kitchen Benchtops

Kitchen Benchtops — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:33:21 +0000

“Our children and future generations will have healthier air to breathe because of MATS and this historic year for clean air protection” – a beginner will enjoy this. Thank you for protecting our environment

By: Greg frazier

Greg frazier — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:11:18 +0000

I agree with this post. You are doing all this to power plants for clean air, well the power companys like AEP is passing the expense on down to us in the end with higher rates!! Make people move away from power plants.
I understand Obama is trying to get rid of Coal dependance in this country period! He needs to go. That is our backbone for the economy!
But other countries can do the same without any regulations? This is stupid!!

By: sara

sara — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:50:05 +0000

nice post

By: VR

VR — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:31:41 +0000

Thanks for once again helping get this country away from the very thing it was built on – affordable energy. It’s no wonder that nothing is produced in this country anymore when ‘acts’ such as this make it harder and more expensive to manufacture any products/goods.

Everyone is worried about their grandchildren’s health, but no one cares what their grandchildren’s electric bill will cost.

What really humors me is that this country believes that if we clean our act up (even though it’s really not nearly as bad as the EPA makes it sound) all the air pollution problems will be solved. The EPA acts as if air doesn’t migrate overseas, from countries such as China. They’re burning as much coal & keep emitting SOx, NOx, mercury and all the other fun toxins, and all the while they’re laughing in our face while we keep burying ourselves deeper in the hole. So let’s punish ourselves and play by (crippling) rules while no one else is.

This EPA administration and a lot of this country need to get a grip on reality. It’s truly a shame that the EPA and state DEP’s get away with what they do.

I wish for once the general public could be truly educated and have a say in issues like this, but evidently Washington doesn’t care what we think. I’d be interested to hear the kind of backgrounds these ‘rulemakers’ have. Hard to believe there is any practical industry experience floating around the capital. But then again, THE GOV KNOWS BEST!