The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is once more acting to do harm to you and me and the environment in general. They are acting to allow more mercury pollution into the air, thereby also contaminating the soil and water supplies. It’s just so ‘1984′ to call them the ‘Environmental Protection’ agency, what doublespeak! More like the ‘Suck Pollution, and Like it’ agency, although that doesn’t add up to a very interesting abbreviation. Anyway, they are trying to pressure state environmental agencies into having lower standards, Federal ones that is, with respect to mercury emissions. It’s so sad, but true. Where does a lot of this mercury pollution come from? Coal-fired power plants, of course. Watch out!

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Here is yet another article summarizing the effect humans have had on our oceans, the largest ecosystem on our planet. The main article is published in Science, so you’re only going to be able to read that with a subscription.

• Human Hurt the Oceans

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Russ Feingold (D-WI) is at it again, thank goodness. Actually, it’s Feingold, along with Oberstar (D-MN), Dingell (D-MI) and Ehlers (R-MI), that have introduced the ‘Clean Water Restoration Act of 2007′. This act is in response to all of the damage that the Bush Administration has done to the ‘Clean Water Act’ in reducing or eliminating protection measures for streams, watersheds, and wetlands in the American southwest such as playas and desert springs. These are all vital sources of water for wildlife, and and people, and are, like many other natural resources, under attack by the Bush Administration by allowing industry to pollute and overuse them.

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