Subject: "How the system works" (guru)..
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 085730 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.......Yesterday I forwarded "The American Way," which was a news
report about the flow of $$$$$$$ into the accounts of both
presidential candidates and the Republican and Democrat parties.
These funds are not given out of any "patriotic" or "philanthropic"
motive -- but with the full expectation that such "investments"
will "pay-off" in the future....
See and example of the "pay-off" below....
....As written below: "Good science has been ambushed
by bad politics," says environmentalist, Carolyn Johnson.....
Where in the hell has she been??? Surely she cannot be surprised by
the two-faced performance of this White House??!! That's what we've
been broadcasting on this net for five years....!!!! Still -- she
and her Sierra Club friends will back Gore for the White House.....
Cheerio....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
...................People are more important than profits.................
Missed opportunity...
$$$$$ We could have changed the corrupted system!! $$$$$
McCain !!
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09:06 AM ET 04/26/00
EPA Won't Call Coal Waste a Hazard
By H. JOSEF HEBERT=
Associated Press Writer=
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Facing opposition from the White House and
Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency has backed away from
declaring ash and other waste from coal-burning power plants a
hazardous substance. But EPA urged states to strengthen regulation
of such wastes.
The disposal of coal waste suddenly emerged as a hotly contested
environmental issue as the Clinton administration faced a
court-ordered deadline on deciding how to regulate the more than
100 million tons of the material generated annually by power
plants.
Environmentalists have complained that the waste, laced with
arsenic, mercury, lead and other toxic metals, is contaminating
water supplies because many states treat the waste with no more
safeguards than normal garbage. At the same time, electric
utilities have argued the waste does not pose a health or
environmental risk and that stricter regulations would dramatically
drive up the cost of electricity.
Directed by a judge to make a decision by the end of the day,
the EPA announced late Tuesday it would develop, for the first
time, federal standards that states and the industry should meet in
disposing of coal waste, but not declare such waste as hazardous
under federal environmental laws.
``At this time EPA does not believe that regulation of the
materials as hazardous waste is justified,'' Michael McCabe, the
EPA's acting deputy administrator, said in a statement, adding that
if states and the industry fail to follow the federal standards the
agency would reconsider whether more stringent regulations are
needed.
The EPA said it would urge states to require liners in land
fills and other disposal sites and special monitoring of nearby
waterways and groundwater when such wastes are buried. Some states
require neither at this time. Texas, for example, does not even
require a permit if the waste is put within 50 miles of a power
plant, environmentalists complained.
Environmental groups accused the EPA of ``backpedaling'' under
pressure from business groups and the utility industry.
``Good science has been ambushed by bad politics,'' complained
Carolyn Johnson of the Citizens Coal Council, a federation of 53
grassroots advocacy groups near coal mines and power plants.
Jeff Stant of the Hoosier Environmental Coalition, an
Indiana-based group that has been active in the national movement
for tighter controls on coal ash, called the EPA decision Tuesday
``a horrendous mistake'' and said it affords little additional
protection since states can ignore the federal guidelines.
The Edison Electric Institute estimated the if coal ash were
declared a hazardous substance it could cost utilities $3 billion
to $5 billion more in disposal costs.
The utilities and business waged an intense lobbying campaign in
Congress and within the administration after the EPA signaled in
March that it planned to designate coal ash as a hazardous waste.
At least 59 members of Congress, including 33 senators, also raised
questions about the draft, noting that a year ago the EPA indicated
stricter regulations were not warranted.
The EPA draft proposal for more stringent federal controls was
met with strong opposition from the Energy Department, the Interior
Department's minerals management agency, and officials at the White
House, according to sources familiar the internal debate in recent
weeks. Finally, the EPA retreated after a federal judge on Tuesday
refused to give the agency more time to develop the proposal.
Coal ash is subject to widely different requirements from state
to state.
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