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Each year American power plants emit nearly 50 tons of mercury, a deadly chemical that damages the brains of young children and developing fetuses.  The Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set limits on hazardous power plant pollution such as mercury, taking into account the maximum reductions that are achievable using current technology.

EPA said it could require a 90 percent reduction in mercury emissions by 2008 using current technology.  But instead, the Bush administration has proposed a far weaker rule that would reduce mercury emissions only 70 percent by 2018: allowing nearly seven times more mercury pollution for a decade longer.  Send a letter to EPA telling them to protect our children’s health by reducing mercury by 90 percent in four years.