----- forwarded message ------ US Issues Guidelines On Eating Of Some Tuna - The Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency will recommend Friday that pregnant women, nursing mothers and young children eat no more than six ounces of albacore tuna or about one meal's worth each week, administration officials said. :: New York Times - http://sierraactivist.org/article.php?sid=43000 & Bergen Record - http://sierraactivist.org/article.php?sid=42936 & Washington Post - http://sierraactivist.org/article.php?sid=42912 & Associated Press - http://sierraactivist.org/article.php?sid=42902 & EPA - http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=119-03192004
Whitman Denies Knowing Mercury Study Was Stalled - On her final day as Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Christie Whitman assured members of Congress that the EPA would do required economic and technical studies before proposing a rule to reduce mercury emissions from power plants. :: Los Angeles Times - http://sierraactivist.org/article.php?sid=42998 Bush Administration Remains Contradictory On Mercury - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized new, stepped up warnings about mercury contamination in fish, inexplicably while the Bush administration continued pushing for a mercury rule that would make it easier for polluters to avoid cleaning up mercury. :: Sierra Club - http://sierraactivist.org/article.php?sid=42987 The Bad Math Of Mercury - You have to wonder about the Bush White House and its poor handling of mercury-pollution rules that put the unborn at special risk. :: Orlando Sentinel - http://sierraactivist.org/article.php?sid=42898 GOP Pollster Warns Bush To Ease Up On Clean Water Act - Under fire for its ongoing campaign to weaken environmental protections, the Bush Administration has received an unequivocal heads-up from the leading Republican pollster advising that undermining clean water safeguards is politically dangerous, and goes against the overwhelming sentiment of the American public. :: BushGreenwatch - http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000077.php
