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Want Mercury in Your Water?

Want Mercury in Your Water?

The Lean to the Left Podcast · Bob Gatty

February 19, 20205m 44sExplicit

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Show Notes

The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to roll back an Obama-era regulation that among its benefits protects kids from brain damage even before they are born.The regulation involved is designed to limit harmful pollutants, like mercury, from power plants. The Trump administration wants it watered down to help the coal industry, even though that could put our health at risk.Ironically, the electric power industry, which originally opposed the regulation when the Obama administration first launched it in 2011, now opposes the EPA's rollback, saying they've already complied and the result has been far few pollutants being emitted by power plants.For the rest of the story...listen...

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