The constant lies, cover-ups, and truth suppression is not going to end until Bush is impeached ...

AP report: "An internal Environmental Protection Agency report estimates the Southeast alone could reap up to $2 billion a year in benefits from reducing mercury pollution - far greater than the $50 million in benefits the agency projected publicly for the entire nation. Critics said the report shows the Bush administration sought to minimize the benefits of reducing mercury pollution in order to justify not requiring power plant owners to buy the most effective technology for lowering mercury emissions. "EPA has a track record of withholding information that doesn't support their agenda, and this is the latest example," said Felice Stadler, a National Wildlife Federation policy specialist....

A separate EPA-commissioned study released in February by the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis estimated there could be $5 billion a year in public health benefits from a 62.5 percent cut in the mercury released by power plants. That study too was excluded from consideration in the new rule EPA released in March...."

The AP report goes on to reveal an heretofore unknown mercury "hot spot" stretching from the Carolinas to S. Florida.

"This report also found a mercury "hot spot" - deposits of the toxic metal stretching across 50,000 square miles in the South Atlantic, from North Carolina to South Florida. The existence of such a large mercury concentration raises questions about public assertions by EPA officials that their new rule would prevent such hot spots.

Announcing the new regulations in March, EPA's air quality chief, Jeffrey Holmstead, said, "We don't think there will be any hot spots. We're quite confident of that." The report said the mercury hot spot off the Atlantic coast was produced by "significant rainfall in the offshore area that washes out large amounts of mercury emitted by power plants and other sources." It said U.S. pollution is responsible for 37 percent to 68 percent of the mercury deposits there."

"Profits Over People", the mantra of Bush and his Corporatist Cabal!