Article: BUSH POLICY ON MERCURY POLLUTION IS ANOTHER PART OF HIS DESTRUCTIVE LEGACY.(EDITORIAL)(Letter to the editor)

Byline: John Birkholz Madison

Dear Editor: With all the hoopla over the Bush administration's quagmire in Iraq, many other important issues have fallen by the wayside. One is the dangerous levels of mercury in fish in our lakes and streams.

Katharyn Mahaffey, an Environmental Protection Agency scientist, estimates that 630,000 U.S. babies, roughly 1 in 6, are born with dangerous levels of mercury in their bloodstreams. Mercury slows and damages the growth of the child's brain until at least the age of 2.

According to Sandra Steingraber, a biochemist who studied fetal toxicology for four years at Cornell University, mercury concentrates as it goes up the food ...

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