How poisonous mercury can get from coal-fired power plants into fish you eat – EPA weakens rules meant to lower the risk

Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young ...

The EPA just loosened mercury rules for coal plants. Here’s what the toxic metal can do to your health

The action could allow the plants to release more dangerous heavy metals, including brain-damaging mercury and cancer-causing ...
Truthout

EPA Repeals Regulations for Mercury and Toxic Air Pollutants From Power Plants

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repealed Biden-era regulations that forced power plants to cut harmful ...
The Republican HeraldOpinion

EPA gives green light for more mercury pollution

In an effort to create more energy, the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Friday announced its plans to ...
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EPA announces move to weaken restrictions on mercury, toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants

The Environmental Protection Agency announced it’s weakening limits on mercury and other toxic emissions from coal-fired ...

E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants

The move appeared to undercut the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a onetime campaigner ...
Times of San Diego

UCSD part of team behind possible breakthrough to fight mercury poisoning from seafood

Scripps Oceanography biogeochemist Amina Schartup in the lab. (Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego) New research from UC San Diego’s Scripps Oceanography Institute and UCLA points toward a potential ...
Rutland Herald

Mercury poisoning our fish

Many Vermonters continue to place themselves at risk from mercury poisoning by eating fish caught in Vermont waters. EPA scientists estimate that one in six women of childbearing age have unsafe ...