Marvin Gaye said it in 1970 in "Mercy Mercy Me" And we still haven't conquered the problem of mercury contamination of fish. It's front page headlines and up front on TV yesterday and today.
http://www.lsj.com/news/local/040805_fish_1a.html
It's good to see the news media paying attention to mercury 34 years after the first discovery of high levels of the toxic stuff in Lake St. Clair fish. But 16 years ago, the problem of mercury in Michigan's inland fish was discovered -- chiefly the result of mercury released by coal-burning power plants. What's news is not the mercury, but how successfully the electric power industry has resisted cleaning up its act in those last 16 years. And lately, with the help of the White House.
Posted by Dave at August 5, 2004 08:28 AM