Voted Gibbons Out!

with his scientifically botched report on mercury, more and more species are showing up with elevated levels of mercury from coal-fired power plants and Nevada goldmines.

The National Wildlife Federation compiled information from 65 scientific reports and concluded that at least 40 species show elevated amounts of mercury contamination:

The report is the first major compilation of studies [...]

A legislative panel–that’s what governs us while our citizen legislature is out earning a living and groping for campaign contributions–approved rules proposed by the Nevada Department of Environmental Degradation Protection (NDEP) for governing the expulsion of nasty mercury from coal-fired power plants today. Asked if they could meddle with them, NDEP bossman Leo Drozdoff growled threateningly [...]

Stuff you won’t see in the local papes: a report from Newmont Mines shows huge increases in mercury emissions from Nevada gold mines, according to the SLTrib:

But [Idaho environmentalist Justin] Hayes pointed to data
recently submitted to Nevada regulators by Newmont Mining Co. that
showed the company’s Gold Quarry mine reported releasing 200 pounds of
mercury in 2004 but [...]

According to the Billings Outpost Link: The Billings Outpost. The Montana League of Conservation Voters has something against mercury emissions–the mercury tends to end up in Montana lakes and streams. They’re also against incumbent Senator Montgomery Conrad Burns (R-Dirty Dozen). The Senator Montgomery Conrad Burns responded by making false acusations about the group:

The League of Conservation [...]

Over in Pennsylvania there’s a fight over how much mercury coal-fired plants should be allowed to emit. Pennsylvania, like Nevada, has a DEP, a Department of Environmental Protection, but unlike Nevada, the Pennsylvania DEP has some backbone, in the form of Kathleen McGinty, who was a senior adviser on the environment to President Clinton. This is [...]

That Nixonian statement is what Gibbons said about scientific critiques of his soiled record on the environment.

The LVRJ (finally) reported on Congressman and Governor wannabe Jim Gibbons noxious war on the environment today. In particular, it’s spreading the news about the Gibbons-authored report which undermined government efforts to curb mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. The [...]

Potentially good news on the mercury emissions front. San Diego based Sempra corporation seems to be giving up plans to build coal-fired plants in Gerlach, Nevada and Central Idaho. From the San Diego Union Tribune:

In Gerlach, Nev., Sempra hoped to build a
1,200-megawatt power plant, enough to power more than 1 million typical
homes. The plans for Jerome [...]