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EPA mercury proposal favors industry, says agency's inspector general
February 03, 2005: In devising its new rules on power-plant mercury emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency violated agency protocol and ignored scientific evidence in order to meet a predetermined goal that favors industry, concluded a report by EPA Inspector General Nikki Tinsley. "Everything about this rule was decided at a political level," said one EPA staff member present at meetings between administrators and staff. "The political level made the decisions, and the staff did what they were told." The EPA is expected to issue its final mercury rule in mid-March.

"We now know why the new mercury rules ended up exactly in line with those proposed in Bush's so-called Clear Skies legislation," said John Walke, director of NRDC's clean air program.

http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/health.asp