“The number of babies with dangerous levels of mercury in their blood has doubled. The National Academy of Sciences has confirmed that unsafe levels of mercury in fish can directly lead to learning disabilities, seizures and cerebral palsy in children. And yet this administration's response is one of the weakest pollution rules ever written for a major industry. When fathers can't feed their families the fish they catch and children can't learn in school, is the Bush administration really willing to allow an extra 10 years of higher mercury pollution?

“This is a simple question of right and wrong. Mercury pollution must be controlled better and faster than this administration has proposed. It's unacceptable to give the industry a pass when our children will pay the price.”