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What Says the President on Mercury?

October 10, 2008

Posted by Erin Allweiss in Health and the Environment

Tags:
congress, health, mercury, toxicchemicals

Last week, Congress passed the "Mercury Market Minimization Act," a bill that will protect Americans and people around the world from mercury poisoning by banning the export of elemental mercury, a neurotoxin that is dangerous for pregnant women and young...