Excerpt from: EHS Compliance Management
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| December 19, 2006 | | EPA considering doing away with health standards for lead air pollution | Just when you think we’re making progress with the environment, the EPA, in a stunning display of stupidity, is now considering lowering the health standards for lead air pollution. The EPA’s rationale for deregulating lead as an air pollutant is like a case study for convoluted bureaucratic logic. The EPA says that concentrations of lead in the air have dropped more than 90 percent since 1976, when the agency started regulating the toxic heavy metal as an air pollutant, and now argues that its success in keeping lead out of the air through regulation may justify taking lead off the list of air pollutants the agency is required to regulate. What?? Instead of the usual “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach, the EPA seems to be contemplating the less common “if it’s working, then break it” strategy. Take action and send EPA Administrator Johnson an email asking him to keep lead on the list of air pollutants. by
Erin Swanson
ESwanson@enviance.com | | |
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