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Dear Illinois Pollution Control Board :

Mercury pollution from Illinois coal plants is a danger to our health and our environment. Please make sure

Illinois' mercury rule:

- Requires coal plants to reduce their mercury pollution by 90 percent by 2009

Does not allow for "pollution trading" schemes that would let some polluters buy their way out of

cleaning up

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Does not contain loopholes that would let some coal plants avoid installing the best available

pollution controls

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We should do everything we can to protect our children and all of us from

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pollution . I urge you to protect our kids by adopting the strongest possible 

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plant mercury pollution by 90% by 2009

. Every waterway in

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Illinoiscarries

a health warning for mercury contamination

. Illinois can

address

this problem now and show America how requiring cost-effective measures

mercury

for

control will clean up local lakes and streams to promote a

healthy

economy .

Reducing mercury emissions by 90% is achievable at reasonable cost

Pleaseapprove

this plan to protect our families and our wildlife from

unnecessary

harm .

This is a decision which is more a matter of common sense than anything

else -

the health and welfare of human life, and the health and safety

of the unborn

these are of much greater priority than coal and the

coal industry

. I urge you to use common sense and proportion to protect

the people of Illinois