How poisonous mercury can get from coal-fired power plants into fish you eat – EPA weakens rules meant to lower the risk

For years, people fishing along the banks of the White River that winds through Indianapolis were met by ominous signs ...

EPA loosens mercury rules for coal plants. Here are the health risks

The EPA just loosened mercury rules for coal plants. Here’s what the toxic metal can do to your health - Environmental and ...
Yahoo

Members of Congress reprimand EPA after new policy could put Americans at risk of mercury poisoning: 'Cruel abandonment of the agency's … obligations'

In June, the EPA announced it would revert mercury pollution regulations for power plants back to 2012 standards, which removes 2024 amendments that required facilities to cut back on mercury, arsenic ...
Times of San Diego

UCSD part of team behind possible breakthrough to fight mercury poisoning from seafood

Scripps Oceanography biogeochemist Amina Schartup in the lab. (Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego) New research from UC San Diego’s Scripps Oceanography Institute and UCLA points toward a potential ...

E.P.A. Weakens Limits on Mercury From Coal Plants

The move appeared to undercut the Make America Healthy Again movement led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a onetime campaigner ...