Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another case of government doing what is east rather than what makes sense? kw >The professional associations for the camera dealers actively lobbied the >EPA NOT to adopt this system. In other words, the EPA DID consider >mandating an exchange system, but the camera industry, as a whole, opted >otherwise. Hence, the EPA did not adopt the system, and mercury batteries >are rapidly going away. > >There's a bit of star chamber work at play here. Unless you follow these >issues, you, as a citizen, don't know WHEN these issues are being >considered or by which regulatory agency. I didn't find out about all this >for a year or three after the EPA had ruled on it. > >Marc > > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits Davison Middle School preferred---> <wilcox@umcc.umich.edu> 600 Dayton, Davison, MI 48423 <kwilcox@genesee.freenet.org>