It's great to see pediatricians and nurses officially fighting EPA's lax mercury pollution policies.
In their first-ever direct legal action against the Environmental Protection Agency, four national health organizations representing some 300,000 medical professionals nationwide are joining a national fight to challenge the agency's failure to properly control mercury emissions from power plants, the largest source of mercury pollution in the U.S.
Mercury is a toxic pollutant that is linked to permanent damage to the central nervous system. Unborn children, breast-fed infants and children exposed to mercury are at risk for lowered intelligence and learning disabilities. Adults exposed to even low amounts of mercury may also be at higher risk for altered sensation, impaired hearing and vision, and motor disturbances linked directly to exposure from eating contaminated fish.
http://www.southernenvironment.org/Cases/mercury/casepage.shtml
Posted by Dave at June 21, 2005 06:50 PM