More mercury with your tuna?

Our President wants to weaken standards on Mercury emissions from coal burning powerplants. What could possibly go wrong?

Nationally, more than half of the fish samples were contaminated above safety limits for women of childbearing age, and more than three-quarters exceeded limits for children under 3 who eat fish twice a week. About 2,500 fish were collected from 260 bodies of water.

The report criticized rules proposed by the Bush administration to reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants as weak and ineffective, but EPA officials yesterday defended the steps being taken.