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Article: REBUKED ON MERCURY.(EDITORIAL)(GUEST COLUMN)(Column)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- March 26, 2008
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Capital Newspapers. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Byline: Rena Steinzor
The Bush administration received a judicial rebuke long in the making in February when an exasperated panel of federal appeals judges held that the Environmental Protection Agency's weak-kneed approach to mercury pollution failed to follow the law. The court sent the rules back to the EPA for revision.
Fortunately, many states have written their own standards to protect pregnant women and their babies. Scientists tell us that 15 percent of U.S. women of childbearing age have unsafe blood mercury levels. The primary pathway of human exposure is food, specifically fish.
Prenatal exposure to methyl mercury causes neurological and other ...
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