More mercury please
Yesterday we in Portland were blessed by a visit from the EPA Administrator. The EPA under the Occupation is on record that by 2018, projecting from the current rate of fishing advisories, and assuming mercury emissions are the primary factor in future fishing advisories, 159% of all river miles, and 65% of all lake acres in the US will be so mercury polluted that eating the fish will cause neurological damage. We were appraised yesterday that the Occupation's plan of record is "very aggressive". How droll. The EPA Administrator also went on record that stack scrubbers are one of the "fictions" that have clouded the mercury emissions debates.
I wrote about this is more detail here.
The real purpose for Mike Leavitt's visit was to do a dog-and-pony with the third- and fourth-graders at the Presumpscot School, because their buses have been retro-fitted to burn homework and teachers, thus reducing diesel emissions, and helping Presumpscot parents understand why Portland public schools must reject Maine's Learning Results, and embrace, and patriotically fail, the NCLB Kafka Metrics.
