As a nation, we cannot afford to subsidize their inefficiency, but our inaction does just that. We will hear a lot of rhetoric about how much implementing this bill will cost. I want to address those complaints up front. The cost argument does not hold water. That is less that two and a half percent, and that strikes me as being the equivalent of a fly on an elephant's back.
Mercury pollution is a key piece of unfinished business in cleaning up our environment.
The poisoning of America's lakes, rivers, lands, and citizens with mercury pollution can be stopped. It is unnecessary, and continuing to ignore it mortgages the health of our children and grandchildren.