Guest guest Posted June 25, 2004 Report Share Posted June 25, 2004 Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:14:28 -0400 Congress Watchdog [CWATCHDOGREG] Act NOW to Protect our Kids from Mercury Environmental Protection Agency accepting comments ONLY UNTIL Tuesday, June 29 DEMAND THAT THE EPA DO MORE TO PROTECT US FROM MERCURY! http://www.mercuryaction.org/getactive.html Mercury is a major public health threat. Children exposed to even low levels of mercury before birth can experience developmental delay and lifelong damage to motor function, language, visual-spatial abilities, and memory. Recent EPA estimates indicate that one in six women of childbearing age has blood mercury levels that exceed what is safe for a fetus. Coal-fired power plants are the largest unregulated source of mercury. Smokestacks at these plants spew mercury pollution into the air. Eventually this mercury falls, settling in waterways and accumulating in fish. People are primarily exposed to mercury by eating contaminated fish. The technology exists today to reduce mercury emissions from power plants by 90% in three years-from about 50 to 5 tons annually. However, EPA's current rule will reduce annual mercury emissions to only about 34 tons by 2010, and potentially 15 tons by 2018. We must tell EPA that this is not enough! To submit a comment on EPA's proposed mercury rule, visit: http://www.mercuryaction.org/getactive.html The EPA is accepting comments until Tuesday, June 29th. If you have not yet commented on this rule, it is crucial that you do so now. We are hoping that by June 29th 1 million people will have told the EPA that its proposed rule is not protective enough. Power plants should be required to reduce emissions by 90% by 2008. Thank you for taking action - please forward this message to your friends and colleagues! If you would like more information about Public Citizen, please visit us at http://www.citizen.org If you would like to support our work protecting democracy, health and safety, go to https://www.citizen.org/join/join --------------------------- For more information about this, and the other issues Public Citizen works on, please visit our website at http://www.citizen.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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