Mercury Contamination Growing


	Mercury Contamination Growing

bookchick49

8-21-2009 6:13 AM

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environment, fish, food, health, mercury, politics, pollution, science

bookchick49 says:

The EPA said this year that it intends to issue new rules under the Clean Air Act to control air emissions of mercury from coal-fired power plants.
The 2nd paragraph that I clipped from the article really turned on a light for me as we (humans) are not the only ones that eat fish. Bears eat fish too.

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