The Enviromental Protection Agency which has as its mission “to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment — air, water and land — upon which life depends” has announced National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. Great, right? Too bad the EPA recently denied a request “by over 60 organizations and institutions nationwide to ban lead ammunition that causes massive poisoning of wildlife.”
Think this makes no sense? Neither does Darin Schroeder, Vice President of Conservation Advocacy for American Bird Conservancy, who said, “If there was a prize offered somewhere for the most unabashed, ironic event of the year, this would have to be the winner. EPA has chosen to ignore the unregulated pumping of lead into the environment for sport in the face of mountains of scientific data that say we are poisoning millions of birds each year, and now is asking us to be mindful of the poisonous impacts of lead.”
More information at the American Bird Conservancy.
You’ll have to forgive the leadership of the EPA… they are mildly retarded, sadly lead poisoning was the cause.
I’ll go you one further into the rabbit hole. The North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources just came out against the EPA’s enforcement of clean air laws in the state.
Sometimes you can’t win for losing.