{"id":437,"date":"2006-12-12T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-12T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=437"},"modified":"2006-12-12T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-12T16:54:00","slug":"pattering-pollution-perversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2006\/12\/12\/pattering-pollution-perversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattering pollution perversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/faarkwee.bmp\" alt=\"You've gotta be kidding!\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/>My weekly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/\">Grist<\/a> email dropped into my inbox just now and pointed me towards the news that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&amp;articleID=5E4DF576D1ED58E5990F70848D933758\">the American EPA is considering delisting lead as an air pollutant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, folks. That&#8217;s right. Delisting lead. The justification for this is apparently that past legislation has greatly reduced levels of lead in the air. So&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. OK. So because past legislation was <strong>effective<\/strong>, they&#8217;re proposing <strong>dropping<\/strong> it. This is the sort of logic I&#8217;d expect from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmeat.com\/redmeat\/meatlocker\/milkmandan.html\">Milkman Dan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, you see Karen, we don&#8217;t need that pesky law to protect little girls like you from nasty lead any more because there&#8217;s so little of it left. So we&#8217;ll just delete lead from the criteria pollutants the way the battery industry wants us to, especially as they asked so nicely, and let them pump that toxic metal into the air to their heart&#8217;s content. Now we know that blood lead levels as low as 10 micrograms per deciliter can impair mental and physical development, but I think being a gibbering retarded midget would suit you, Karen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hate you Milkman Dan.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My weekly Grist email dropped into my inbox just now and pointed me towards the news that the American EPA is considering delisting lead as an air pollutant. Yes, folks. That&#8217;s right. Delisting lead. The justification for this is apparently that past legislation has greatly reduced levels of lead in the air. So&#8230; Yeah. OK. 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