EPA to reintroduce lead pollution?

The willingness of this administration to sell out the safety of the public in favor of corporate profit is just breathtaking. .

"The EPA this week acknowledged the possibility of dropping the health standards for lead air pollution. The agency says revoking those standards might be justified "given the significantly changed circumstances since lead was listed in 1976" as an air pollutant. The EPA says concentrations of lead in the air have dropped more than 90 percent in the past 2 1/2 decades.

...Battery makers, lead smelters, refiners all have lobbied the administration to do away with the Clean Air Act limits.

Sure, all that clean air can't possibly be good for us when it interferes with healthy profit margins. In a cagey move, the EPA is trying to couch this as an effort to comply with reporting requirements they regularly miss.

"Starting with lead, we're going to try to dovetail this in," Peacock said of the new guidance, which he said also would help the agency use the most up-to-date science and keep separate its scientific and policy considerations.

What the hell does that mean? How do you keep the two seperate and why would you, except that the scientific data interferes with unfettered corner cutting on indutry's part?

Bill Wehrum, who heads the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, said the agency is "committed to continuing to significantly reduce lead emissions in this country. That's what we're trying to figure out."

I have suggestion. How about leaving our clean air alone and start addressing the scientific reports on climate disruption, instead of spending time editing out the data in reports that displeases the White House?