If this were the only impact of mercury pollution, it would be bad enough. It's not. And it's too bad we have to put a pricetag on the damage done to children to get a policy response.
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Reductions in IQ due to mercury pollution affect between 300,000 and 600,000 American children each year and will cost the United States an estimated $8.7 billion in lost earnings annually (range: $2.2-$43.8 billion), according to a new study by scientists at the Mount Sinai Center for Children's Health and the Environment in New York, released today in Environmental Health Perspectives (http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/7743/7743.pdf), the peer- reviewed journal of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Posted by Dave at February 28, 2005 07:13 PM