EPA Mercury Rulings Begs Derangement : Ideology Replacing Science

Time is running out for the progressive socialist liberal democrat ideology of "transforming" our country. They have two more years to completely destroy our way of life, and if they can't make it happen in that time span they believe all will be lost.

The problem for the progressive socialist democrats, they are finding it harder to drive an entire country into subsistence and  poverty then they thought. Little wonder then the EPA has used totally bogus science if not out right intentional misinformation to drive their agenda of 'clean energy' to replace fossil fuels, and in this case, coal that produces more then 40% of all our domestic energy.

That the EPA, driven entirely by the Obama White House, has fallen back on fantasy science that begs these bureaucrats are nothing but insane. Lunatics of the worst kind, if one lunatic is worse when another, but these EPA scientists are help up the progressive socialist democrat party as winning the case for the environment.

Who voted for the democrats to do this? Twice?  If you aren't scared yet, I suggest you become so.

EPA Mercury Rule Based on Silly Science
Source: Pat Michaels, "EPA's mercury rules: Dumb and Dumber," The Hill, February 10, 2015.

February 16, 2015

The Supreme Court is set to review the Environmental Protection Agency's rules regulating power plant mercury emissions this year, and Pat Michaels, director of the Center for the Study of Science at Cato, says the agency will have to defend its decision to regulate mercury under the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act.
Michaels says mercury might sound scary, but the reality is quite different.

• There is more mercury emitted into the atmosphere from natural sources such as volcanoes than from human activity.
• Mercury, whatever its source, often sits in the air until large rainstorms come along. According to Michaels, the mercury that falls in the United States is often from China.
• Just 2 percent of global emissions mercury come from the United States.
• Moreover, just 0.5 percent of all mercury emissions come from American power plants.

In addition to the fact that mercury constitutes a tiny portion of the atmosphere, the EPA is tackling a problem based on misleading data. In fact, part of its justification for the rule was based on the effect that mercury would have on children born to an entirely hypothetical population: 240,000 women of child-bearing age who consume 300 pounds of freshwater fish that they or their families have personally caught each year. NCPA Senior Research Fellow Ann Purvis discussed this fact in a report on environmental litigation, noting that the EPA never actually identified a member of this population -- it merely assumed that such women existed.

To determine the harm that mercury would have upon these children, the EPA utilized a computer model which predicted that the mercury would lower the I.Q. of the children by a miniscule 0.00209 points. On top of that, says Michaels, the EPA claims the loss of 0.00209 I.Q. points will cost those children up to $6,000,000 a year due to reduced earnings.

This is the science on which the EPA's mercury regulations are based -- regulations which threaten to shut down coal plants across the country.