Don’t worry, the compassionate conservatives will have it all taken care of by Christmas:
Independent soil and sediment samples taken at 11 locations around coastal Mississippi revealed elevated levels of heavy metals, dioxin and microorganisms, including arsenic levels more than two times the federal limit at DeLisle Elementary School, according to a report released by the Sierra Club on Monday.
The tests were completed by Wilma Subra, an environmental consultant from New Iberia, La., for several environmental groups, including Sierra Club and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Subra collected the samples on Sept. 30 and Oct. 2. [...]
Residential neighborhoods in Pearl River, the Back Bay of Biloxi and Big Lake showed levels of arsenic 28 times higher than U.S. Environmental Protection Agency levels. Winding Way Drive, part of a DeLisle community, had chromium levels 1.7 times higher than EPA standards. Heavy metals such as arsenic and chromium are known to be poisonous to humans.
Looks like it’s time for Bush’s EPA to redefine that “safe level” threshhold upwards by at least 28 times: That will eliminate the threat, as any Bush lawyer can tell you. It then just becomes just a issue of harping by crazy environmentalists who don’t know that the Sixties have ended.
Because after all, this technique has worked so well when they redefined torture as “organ failure”, which makes water boarding just another competitive sport, like the Abu Ghraib “fraternity pranks”.
This fools everyone, you see.
The only places that distrust us now are those un-American places, like France, Russia, and Pennsylvania (”Murtha-Land”).
Snark, snark.
Of course they’ll take care of it. They’ll fund a study by industry connected scientists that proves these chemicals are fine at those levels, then change the laws to match the ’science’.
Actually, they will have the FDA announce the new minimum daily adult requirement for arsenic, mercury, and other heavy metals.
Ah, yes. I can hear the script now: “Are your children getting enough arsenic in their diet?” “What’s a mother to do?”
Of course, I’m relying on the TV version of mothers here… I don’t develop my own stereotypes.