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And the Bush administration want to allow those mercury levels to rise for the next twenty years.

Under Bush's ironically named Clear Skies initiative, power plants can cough up 3 times as much neurotoxic mercury, 50 percent more acid rain causing sulfur dioxide, and hundreds of thousands of tons of good old smog creating nitrogen oxides.

Additionally Bush wants to free up the dirtiest powerplants in america, the infamous grandfathered** ones in the midwest which account for the MAJORITY of air pollution in the midatlantic and much of New England. He wants to gut the New Source Review law so that they can replace up to a third of their equipment ever year, and not have to improve their emission standards whatsoever.
It completely flies in the face of what NSR was meant to do. He is creating the most dangerous environmental loophole ever.

Environment is my #1 election issue, and the issue that Bush is absolutely evil on. It's a shame more americans don't cast their vote on environment. It's the presidential issue that really ends up effecting us all the most.

**Grandfathered powerplants are the ones who were around before the Clean Air Act. They are not required to conform to CAA act. This makes them huge moneymakers for their owners because they don't have to put any of the expensive cleanup technologies on their plants.

The owners of these plants deserve lynchings.