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...source [Sept. 11]. Whole Foods, Safeway and Wild Oats have voluntarily posted government warnings about mercury in fish. But other companies should follow suit and let customers know which fish contain high levels of mercury. Few people are aware that chlorine plants emit more mercury on average than coal-fired power plants. Technology to eliminate mercury in chlorine processes is already used by 90% of the industry, but six plants still use and release mercury unnecessarily. Mercury release could be cut substantially if they too would shift...
...otters are not the only species harmed by ocean pollution, of course, but they are easier than most to study. They sit at the top of a food chain that may extend less than half a mile from shore. "The sea otter is the canary in the coal mine for the coastal ecosystem," says Monterey's Murray...
...Environmental Protection Agency managed to upset doctors, environmentalists, automobile companies and the coal industry all at once today when it released new standards on air quality. In a compromise that will likely leave no one totally satisfied, the agency called for a modest tightening of the numbers for what is called fine particle pollution - a complex mixture of everything from smoke to sulfates that is small enough to penetrate deeply into the lungs. But the agency more or less left in place its regulations on larger particle pollutants...
...mind could produce a physical change in the peripheral nerves is not impossible, however. With my own eyes I have seen the red circle left by an ordinary quarter, on the arm of a fellow student under hypnosis in medical school. I told her it was a burning coal but that she couldn't move to take it off. We thought her grimacing seemed a little fake. But the very obvious inflammation of the skin touching the quarter was not. It showed that the brain's control of specific, tiny nerves - in this case the tiny blood vessels...
...while much of the environmental mercury in the U.S. comes from power plants, the other dominant source is chlor-alkali plants, which manufacture chemicals used in soaps, detergents and other products. More than 25% of the U.S. total blows in from overseas, particularly from coal-gobbling countries like China. Illinois Senator Barack Obama has proposed two bills to address those problems. One requires the eight chlor-alkali plants in the U.S. that still use mercury to convert to a less toxic alternative by 2012. The other calls for a ban on U.S. exports of mercury starting in 2010--a significant...