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EPA Mercury Rule Omits Conflicting Data
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Washington Post
Washington Post, March 22, 2005
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55268-2005Mar...
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55268-2005Mar...
When the Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a rule last week to limit mercury emissions from U.S. power plants, officials emphasized that the controls could not be more aggressive because the cost to industry already far exceeded the public health payoff. What they did not reveal is that a Harvard University study paid for by the EPA, co-authored by an EPA scientist and peer-reviewed by two other EPA scientists had reached the opposite conclusion. That analysis estimated health benefits 100 times as great as the EPA did, but top agency officials ordered the finding stripped from public documents.
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