[Fwd: Illinois PIRG : Tell the Bush administration to stop mercury pollution]

Dear Illinois PIRG supporter,

Recently you might have read in your local paper about the Bush administration's announcement that more of
America's rivers and lakes are polluted with poisonous mercury pollution than ever before. "Mercury is
everywhere," EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt told the New York Times.

Unfortunately, instead of taking action to solve the problem by requiring power plants to install the modern
pollution controls that could reduce mercury pollution by 90%, the Bush administration has proposed delaying
mercury rules for power plants by a decade.

Warning the public about mercury isn't enoughâ??we need to stop the pollution at its source. In the past two
months you've helped us set an all-time record by submitting over 600,000 public comments urging the Bush
administration to strengthen their proposal. Then we asked you to help us find doctors and small business
owners to sign onto a letter calling for protections against mercury pollution, and a stunning 700 doctors
and business owners replied.

Now you can help raise the heat on the Bush administration by asking your representative in Congress to tell
the Bush administration to stop mercury pollution.

Follow the link below to go to a web page where you can email your representative. Then ask your family and
friends to take action by forwarding this email to them.

http://pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=806&id4=ES

To see the New York Times story about the Bush administrationâ??s announcement, click this link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/25/politics/25fish.html.


Sincerely,

Rebecca D. Stanfield
Illinois PIRG Environmental Attorney
RebeccaS@illinoispirg.org
http://www.IllinoisPIRG.org

P.S. Thanks again for your support. Please feel free to share this e-mail with your family and friends.