“The job-creating mercury rule”

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“The job-creating mercury rule”
from Obama 2012 Blog
In an editorial, The New York Times defends the Mercury and Air Toxics rule, approved by the Obama administration in December, against attempts in Congress to overturn it:

After 20 years of delay and litigation by polluters, the Obama administration approved in December one of the most important rules in the history of the Clean Air Act. It will require power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other toxic pollutants by more than 90 percent in the next five years and is expected to prevent as many as 11,000 premature deaths annually from asthma, other respiratory diseases and heart attacks.

In addition to reducing emissions of global warming gases and ground-level pollutants, the upgrades are expected to create as many as 45,000 temporary construction jobs over the next five years and possibly 8,000 permanent jobs.

Read the rest of the editorial, and learn more about the rule at EPA.gov/mats.

http://www.barackobama.com/news/did-you ... rcury-rule