But here’s the curious thing: While whipping up fear about mercury in the outdoors, the EPA is actively downplaying mercury’s health risks when it comes out of fluorescent bulbs inside people’s homes.
The explanation of this apparent hypocrisy?
What both have in common, however, is that they advance the EPA’s control of our lives.
On the one hand, it wants to decide how we light our homes to force energy savings. On the other, it wants to shove the country off coal to reduce global warming.
So what if it has to speak out of both sides of its mouth on mercury risks?
In the end, the real risk to the nation’s health isn’t from minute traces of mercury coming out of smokestacks or broken CFLs. It’s from the economy-crushing mandates pouring forth from the EPA.
No need to worry about the economy according to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson:
Fear not, since Jackson claims the “health and economic benefits” will be many times greater than the costs.
You can’t make this stuff up.
