News tagged with mercury pollution
EPA to limit mercury emissions from power plants
Oct 26, 2009 |
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The Environmental Protection Agency will put controls on the emissions of hazardous pollutants such as mercury from coal-fired power plants for the first time by November 2011, according to an agreement announced Friday to ...
EPA fellow studies effect of mercury in toads
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Christine Bergeron of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, a doctoral student in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources, received a fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Center for ...
Researchers reveal key to how bacteria clear mercury pollution
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Mercury pollution is a persistent problem in the environment. Human activity has lead to increasingly large accumulations of the toxic chemical, especially in waterways, where fish and shellfish tend to act as sponges for ...
Federal study shows mercury in fish widespread
Aug 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- No fish can escape mercury pollution. That's the take-home message from a federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday that tested fish from nearly 300 streams across the country.
The first evidence of pre-industrial mercury pollution in the Andes
May 18, 2009 |
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The study of ancient lake sediment from high altitude lakes in the Andes has revealed for the first time that mercury pollution occurred long before the start of the Industrial Revolution.
