Carol Ekarius' Toxic Burden Blog: Learn how chemicals affect your health

Toxic Burden is the interface of our environment and our health. For decades we have heard about genes and lifestyle, but environment is the third leg of the stool. This blog will help you learn how toxins affect you, your family and friends.

Thursday, August 9, 2007

A Bit of Good News on the Mercury Front

Today I received an email from the staff at Oceana, the group whose report I referred to in the post about mercury releases from chlorine product. They were updating me with this bit of news: The Number One Source of Mercury Air Pollution in Wisconsin Commits to Switch. According to Oceana, this single action will result in a full 28% reduction in mercury air emissions in Wisconsin, nearly cutting the state’s emissions by a third.

I think this is evidence that open dialog and freely available information about the environmental health issues we face can result in change.

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