‘Cap and Trade’ Allows Mercury Pollution
Re “EPA Aims to Combat Dirty Air With Trading Systems,” Dec. 5: I am astonished that the Bush administration would cut the effective plans of the Clinton administration to drastically reduce emissions of mercury from power plants and instead propose a “cap and trade” program that would allow individual power plants to buy the right to highly pollute their local communities and environments. Is anyone in the federal government looking out for the welfare of ordinary Americans?
Jonathan Matthews
Valley Village
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