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Thursday, March 30, 2006

1 in 6 American women have unsafe levels of mercury in their blood
If you're like most Americans, you probably try hard to incorporate heart-healthy sources of protein in your diet, by, for example, eating fish. Therefore, there was good reason to be alarmed when health agencies in 44 states, including Illinois, issued fish consumption warnings due to mercury conta... Continued...

United Nations' committee sets tougher limits for mercury in food than United States
The United Nations' World Health and Food and Agriculture organizations recommended tougher standards for levels of mercury in food on Friday, citing concerns that pregnant women who eat fish are exposing their children to harmful levels. The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives recom... Continued...

Mercury alert
EXPOSURE to mercury in the womb raises children's blood pressure in later life, according to a study in the Faeroe Islands. The data - which indicate an effect at one-third of the current limit for mercury in food - are being examined by UN advisers meeting in Rome this week to review these limits. ... Continued...

Alternative Feedstocks; Warming Up to Coal
The soaring cost of oil and the volatility of natural gas prices in the U.S. are prompting chemical makers to take a look at alternative sources of feedstock and energy. In particular, there is a resurgence of interest in projects that use synthesis gas (syngas) obtained from coal as a source of pet... Continued...

Monday, March 27, 2006

World Dengue Fever Seen As Global Threat
Dengue fever is spreading to more countries and epidemics are occurring more frequently, international health experts said on the eve of an Asia-Pacific conference in Chiang Mai to discuss new containment tactics, The Nation reports. Health officials meeting on March 23 and on March 24 will work ... Continued...

Friday, March 24, 2006

Good Genes Gone Bad
Scarcely a week goes by without coverage of a new discovery by scientists revealing that yet another disease is linked to one or another gene. The range of health conditions now known to be gene related is astonishing. Some are just what you would have expected 50 years ago: many cancers, birth defe... Continued...

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Fiscal 2007 Budget: The Epa
Statement of Dr. M. Granger Morgan Chair U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board Committee on House Science Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards March 16, 2006 Good morning Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Stan... Continued...

Thursday, February 9, 2006

Utahns' mercury levels lower than nation's
A new Sierra Club study shows that the more fish people eat, the more likely they are to have worrisome amounts of toxic mercury in their bodies. Hair samples taken from more than 6,600 people from the 50 states, including 139 from Utah, showed that 1 in 5 American women of childbearing age has ... Continued...

Monday, September 19, 2005

TECHNOLOGY: MERCURY MENACE
A Kolkata research team has shown that even a minute amount of mercuric chloride can damage the chromosomes of human white blood cells. Biplab Das reports A GROUP of researchers from Kolkatas Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences claims that exposure to mercury can bring about lethal effects on ... Continued...

Sunday, August 14, 2005

Marshall plant state's top mercury polluter PPG looses 1,200 pounds of deadly element into air yearly
NATRIUM - Barely a mile of W.Va. 2 runs between the two green-and-white road signs that mark Natrium. No one lives here. It's barely a wide spot in the road, tucked between a Marshall County hillside and the Ohio River. Here, just north of New Martinsville, PPG Industries operates a sprawling che... Continued...

Monday, August 1, 2005

Mercury Man; Did the EPA's Jeffrey Holmstead take a cue from Latham lobbyists?
This summer, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) handed Jeffrey Holmstead a rare distinction. In March, Holmstead, who is assistant administrator of air and radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency, issued federal standards governing mercury pollution by coal-fueled power plants. Leahy objecte... Continued...

Saturday, April 2, 2005

IF YOU LIKE INGESTING MERCURY, YOU'LL LOVE BUSH RULES
Do you want more mercury in your tuna? Do you like seeing advisories warning against eating fish posted by our fishing lakes and streams? If you do, you'll love the Bush administration's final mercury rule issued on March 15. The administration's plan allows coal-fired power plants to release thr... Continued...

Sunday, April 19, 1998

Greenland Snow's Mercury Measured
A lot less mercury is polluting the snow in Greenland than environmental researchers thought. Mercury measurements made in the 1970s ''were plagued by major contamination problems,'' scientists report in a paper scheduled for the Sept. 1 edition of Geophysical Research Letters. New measurement... Continued...

Friday, December 19, 1997

EPA REPORT RAISES NEW CONCERNS ABOUT MERCURY
The hazards of mercury entering the environment from coal-burning utility plants is greater than previously believed, and its toxic effects raise new concerns about its place in the human diet, according to a Clinton administration report to be released today. At issue in the report, being made p... Continued...