Looks like business as usual at Grist.

The earth is cooling.

Yet, you plow on as if it were warming!

I guess the science wasn't as "known" as you pretended, Grist Ecologists!

Did you even read the article? What on earth does global climate change have to do with lead?

...by the time they haveta make a decision on this, a new administration will be in, hopefully one that'll encourage tougher lead standards.

It also helps that lead ins't nearly as "controversial" as other environmental problems in that most people are in agreement on it's effects and the need to eliminate it.

...EPA is legally bound to make the decision this year.  So it'll still be the Bushies.

Stay tuned.

If enough people get high enough lead exposures then  we can hasten our return to the dark ages.

...EPA is legally bound to make the decision this year.  So it'll still be the Bushies.

Good point.  But I'm under the impression that they may "delay" it and file it under the "let the next administration handle it" stockpile they seem to be accumulatin' recently.

EPA doesn't blow court-ordered deadlines, ever.  It would put the Administrator in contempt of court.  

Court-ordered deadlines happen all the time (when EPA is sued by environmental groups for missing statutory deadlines).  I can't remember EPA ever blowing a court-ordered deadline.  It just doesn't happen.

The Bush EPA doesn't care if they must 'protect' the environment now. The costs will be borne by the next (democratic?) administration. So the historical legacy of the Bush administration will look like it was 'efficient', while the next administration (democratic?) will be strapped with the costs & will look 'inefficient'. Yeah, the republicans have been skating on their 'efficient' administrations for decades.