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Mercury Pollution
Collins and Snowe put mercury pollution ahead of party politics -- Jul 5, 2005...have done exactly that by breaking ranks with their fellow Republicans and supporting an effort to overturn new federal rules controlling mercury pollution. ... (Kennebec Journal,)
Senate soon to debate mercury pollution rules -- Jul 1, 2005AP) — Senate Democrats have been joined by some Republicans from Northeastern states in an effort to overturn new federal regulations on mercury pollution. ... (USA Today)
Mercury pollution persists -- Jun 28, 2005Emissions from coal-fired power plants, the source of 41 percent of mercury pollution, inevitably end up in waterways and the muscles of fish. ... (NorthJersey.com,)
Greenpeace tests for mercury pollution on Cape Cod -- Jun 29, 2005On Cape Cod the Mirant power plant at the Cape Cod Canal and the Brayton Point power plant in nearby Somerset have been cited as sources of mercury pollution. ... (Upper Cape Codder,)
Groups Sue EPA Over Mercury Pollution on Behalf of Children -- Jun 15, 2005...nurses, public health advocates, and a doctor-dominated gadfly group have teamed up to see the Environmental Protection Agency in court over mercury pollution. ... (MedPage Today,)
Report discusses SaskPower mercury pollution -- Jun 10, 2005REGINA – SaskPower says it's trying to clean up its act on mercury pollution from its coal-fired power plants. The company was ... (CBC Saskatchewan,)
Baltimore enters legal fray on mercury pollution rules -- Jun 7, 2005...yesterday that Baltimore will join a dozen states challenging the Bush administration's decision to exempt power plants from tough mercury pollution controls. ... (Baltimore Sun,)
The Bush task force's $20 billion proposal would be largest ... -- Jul 7, 2005But the report avoided a few contentious issues -- such as containing mercury pollution from coal-powered electric-generating plants. ... (DetNews.com,)
Amy Winans and Monty Fakhouri: Governor needs to push reduction on ... -- Jul 8, 2005...generations. Despite intense industry lobbying, we're confident Granholm will reduce power plant mercury pollution by 90 percent by 2013. ... (Lansing State Journal,)
Local/State News in Brief -- Jul 1, 2005AP) -- Senate Democrats have been joined by some Republicans from Northeastern states in an effort to overturn new federal regulations on mercury pollution. ... (Bennington Banner,)
Senators sign on to force vote on mercury -- Jun 30, 2005...two Republican senators broke ranks and joined Democrats on Wednesday, giving life to an effort to overturn new federal rules for controlling mercury pollution ... (MaineToday.com,)
A plan good only in name -- Jul 6, 2005...contamination. The electric power industry, a major source of mercury pollution, has played a key role in weakening clean water protections. ... (Miami Herald,)
Congressional Democrats Try to Block Bush Mercury Rule -- Jun 30, 2005We should enforce the Clean Air Act and require all power plants to rapidly reduce mercury pollution, which is so hazardous to our children. ... (Environment News Service)
Big Brown, the first lignite-fueled power plant in Texas, belches ... -- Jun 8, 2005Still, Kleckner said, “We’re proud of our environmental record.� When asked about the mercury pollution, he said that the company has experimented with ... (Fort Worth Weekly,)
Snowe, Collins join Democrats in push for new mercury rules -- Jun 30, 2005PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's two Republican senators gave life to an effort to overturn new federal rules for controlling mercury pollution when they ... (Foster's Daily Democrat,)
Reduce mercury contamination of water bodies, children's brains -- Jun 29, 2005This is a growing and pervasive problem in New York, which is why Gov. Pataki must control mercury pollution from in-state power plants as promised. ... (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle,)
2 plants rate high among polluters -- Jun 29, 2005Yet the US power industry generates less than 1 percent of all mercury pollution worldwide. Most mercury pollution emanates from China and other parts of Asia. ... (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (subscription),)
Keep children away from chemicals -- Jun 26, 2005Health Perspectives, a peer-reviewed National Institutes of Health journal — found the reduction of children's IQ because of mercury pollution costs the ... (Poughkeepsie Journal,)
Leahy, Collins Introduce Resolution of Disapproval on EPA's ... -- Jun 29, 2005Leahy has long led in Congress on mercury pollution issues and is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a senior member of the ... (U.S. Newswire (press release),)
Leahy effort to stop EPA mercury rule has GOP support -- Jul 1, 2005WASHINGTON Senate Democrats have been joined by some Republicans from Northeastern states in an effort to overturn new federal regulations on mercury pollution ... (WCAX,)
2 Entergy plants are soiling air, group says -- Jun 29, 2005Yet the US power industry generates less than 1 percent of all mercury pollution worldwide. Most of that emanates from China and other parts of Asia. ... (Arkansas Democrat Gazette,)
US Senators File Measure to Halt EPA Mercury Emissions Rule -- Jun 29, 2005June 30 (Bloomberg) -- US Senators introduced a measure yesterday to halt the Environmental Protection Agency's new mercury pollution rules, which they claim ... (Bloomberg)
EPA faces fight on mercury policy -- Jun 30, 2005Unlike acid rain pollution, which was successfully limited through a similar free-market trading program, mercury pollution is usually local, rather than ... (Boston Globe,)
Sithe backs power plant -- Jun 8, 2005Eghneim said Desert Rock would use carbon-injection technology binding elemental mercury to carbon, minimizing mercury pollution. ... (MSNBC)
Power task force to talk about health -- Jun 27, 2005I'll be talking about the health effects of mercury, coal's contribution to that, and I'll also give a global perspective about mercury pollution, Gipson said. ... (News-Leader.com,)
EPA Mercury Rule Attacked in Senate Resolution -- Jun 30, 2005...a resolution Wednesday to block a Bush administration action environmentalists have attacked as an effort to coddle industries responsible for mercury pollution ... (Natural Resources Defense Council,)
Mercury Rule Review -- Jul 1, 2005Federal rules on mercury pollution are too lenient and need to be overturned. Members of Congress this week took an important step ... (Bangor Daily News,)
Week in review -- Jul 3, 2005Maine's two Republican senators gave life to an effort to overturn new federal rules for controlling mercury pollution when they joined Democrats on Wednesday. ... (MaineToday.com,)
National medical, nursing and public health groups file suit -- Jun 14, 2005...the US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday, June 14 in DC Circuit Court to force it to strengthen its official rule on mercury pollution from coal-fired ... (EurekAlert,)
When Science Talks, Does Anyone Listen? -- Jun 28, 2005When more than 300,000 health professionals jointly sued the EPA for allowing too much mercury pollution, they cited the EPA's own estimate that one of every ... (RedNova.com,)
Health Groups Join Suit Against US EPA Over Mercury Emissions -- Jun 14, 2005The rule, adopted by the EPA in March, delays ``significant reductions in mercury pollution from power plants by at least 10 to 15 years,'' the groups said in ... (Bloomberg)
Bush Administration Subverts the Truth -- Jun 25, 2005Distorted claims and suppression of facts also have marked the administration's approach to global warming; to mercury pollution and air pollution; to ... (Common Dreams,)
PSNH position on mercury said to be faulty -- Jun 10, 2005Would Mr. Long then claim the mercury pollution that traveled all the way over from China and Ohio just happened to deposit immediately downwind of Merrimack ... (Foster's Daily Democrat,)
EU ministers call for ban on mercury exports by ’11 -- Jun 27, 2005...and even cause death. Pregnant women are advised to limit intake of some fish due to mercury pollution in the sea. “This is a ... (Economic Times,)
SaskPower told to cut mercury emissions 40% -- Jun 30, 2005Some funding from various levels of government may be available to reduce mercury pollution, but most of the costs will be borne by SaskPower, Stedwill said. (CBC Saskatchewan,)
Greenpeace tests for mercury -- Jul 1, 2005...plant at the Cape Cod Canal and the Brayton Point power plant in the Southeastern Massachusetts town of Somerset have been cited as sources of mercury pollution ... (Cape Codder,)
A Victory For Clean Air -- Jun 17, 2005In 2004, after completing a comprehensive study of the issue, the Department of Environmental issued final limits on mercury pollution from the Filthy Five. ... (MASSPIRG (PressRelease),)
Policies On Utility Emissions Analyzed -- Jun 23, 2005New York State Energy Research & Development Authority, also scrutinizes two types of policies for steeply curbing utilities’ mercury pollution-—one based ... (Chemical & Engineering News)
Florida's population boom contributes to Gulf's poor health -- Jun 9, 2005...a better way of predicting red tide outbreaks, setting up a regional system to monitor shellfish beds and tracking down the sources of mercury pollution. ... (Naples Daily News (subscription),)
NEWS IN A MINUTE: Michigan makes plans to speed mercury reduction -- Jun 21, 2005Michigan can and should insist upon reductions in mercury pollution on a more aggressive timetable than new federal rules require, according to recommendations ... (Detroit Free Press,)
ADEM pledges mercury review -- Jun 18, 2005Regulators in other states say that adoption of those new guidelines would give the state a powerful tool to control mercury pollution that has so far escaped ... (Mobile Register,)
The Age of Autism: HHS eyes Amish study -- Jun 27, 2005...autism, none of them vaccinated. He attributed the disorder in four of the cases to environmental mercury pollution. Even the idea of ... (Science Daily (press release))
EPA Blames 'Galamsey' for Degrading Environment: ¢300,000 ... -- Jun 29, 2005Accompanying this pattern of socio-economic growth, however, have been increased environmental complications - namely, mercury pollution and land degradation. ... (AllAfrica.com,)
Letter: HealthLink ‘still in the ring’ -- Jun 16, 2005Coal-burning power plants are the largest source of mercury pollution in the US, collectively emitting 48 tons of mercury annually, or 40 percent of the ... (Marblehead Reporter,)
EEB calls for greater groundwater protection -- Jun 23, 2005The Environment Council is meeting on June 24th and will also be discussing REACH, ship dismantling, mercury pollution and GM crops. (Environmental Data Interactive,)
Author to share secret garden tips -- Jun 29, 2005A forum on mercury pollution, organized by the Sierra Club, will take place at 7 pm Thursday at the downtown Lexington Public Library, 140 E. Main St. ... (Kentucky.com,)
Grassy Narrows youth prepare for environmental week -- Jun 29, 2005...may have spoken the language and hunted for survival, the parents were largely forced from the land in the late 1960s, when mercury pollution contaminated the ... (Daily Miner and News,)
Opposition to the Iraq War has been pretty quiet. That's why it's ... -- Jun 27, 2005So it wasn't long before The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, long dismissive of environmental problems like mercury pollution, was seized with the ... (The American Prospect,)
Double Celebration for Caroline and Maureen -- Jun 27, 2005...year at Napier University in Edinburgh, where she worked on the university’s Biogem Project, creating biosensors to test for mercury pollution in the soil. ... (University of Ulster Online,)
50 years from now, Florida's environment -- Jun 22, 2005Florida, with unexplained concentrations of mercury pollution threatening public health, will eliminate toxics contributing to the rise in cognitive learning ... (Orlando Sentinel,)
Effort Underway To Reduce Mercury Expose To Fetuses -- Jun 13, 2005...not enough. "70% of the mercury pollution in our state comes from our coal-fired plants," Rep. Karen May (D-Illinois) said. "The ... (CBS2 Chicago,)
PennFuture Calls for DEP to Adopt Maximum Protection for ... -- Jun 16, 2005...attorney at PennFuture. "The technology is available to cut mercury pollution and protect our children from mercury poisoning. Now, we ... (Yahoo News (press release))
Thermo Electron Introduces Stack Gas Monitoring System for Power ... -- Jun 9, 2005Rule to permanently cap and reduce mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, making the US the first country to address this source of mercury pollution. ... (Yahoo News (press release))
The Age of Autism: Feedback on the Amish 2 -- Jun 16, 2005We have the recent study completed at the University of Texas that indicates that areas with mercury pollution have a higher incidence of autism. ... (Monsters and Critics.com,)
Hi-Tech Teaching Tool -- Jun 21, 2005Their creations will be used in middle and high schools to educate kids about the origins of mercury pollution, and why it's important to safely dispose of the ... (WCAX,)
Editorial: Political science/Soft-pedaling climate consensus -- Jun 13, 2005...of a piece with the Bush administration's practice of bending science to fit its policies on subjects from breast cancer to mercury pollution -- but especially ... (Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription),)
Unlikely partners unite on the environment -- Jun 12, 2005Fishermen also have been incensed by the administration's weak mercury pollution control regulations and proposal to allow more partially treated sewage to ... (Baltimore Sun,)
News archive on Mercury Pollution
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