The speeding freight train carrying toxic waste liability for makers, sellers and purchasers of compact
fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs) was only faintly audible in the distance last spring when
this
column first warned of it. Now we’re beginning to see that environmentalist-stoked train speed toward
its victims, who President Bush and Congress just finished tying to the tracks.
The energy bill enacted last December
mandates that traditional incandescent bulbs be phased out starting in 2012. CFLs are pretty much the only
alternative.
Clean Water Action told the media in 1997
that the mercury level in tuna
is so high that a 35-pound child eating more than 2-ounces a week would exceed the EPA’s “safe” level
Environmental Defense began pooh-poohing mercury concerns stating, “In short, the exposure from breaking a
CFL is in about the same range as the exposure from eating a can or two of tuna fish.”
Two-ounces of tuna used to be a horror, but in the name of CFLs, two cans became no problem.
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