The group released its annual report naming the 10 largest sources of power plant mercury pollution.
In particular, coal plants are the largest source of mercury pollution in the Great Lakes.
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The Indiana-based utility is investing in the required equipment to reduce its sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury pollution.
She points out that as yet there is no technical remedy that can clean up mercury pollution or PCBs.
And some evangelical Christians worry that mercury pollution is damaging the unborn, and pointedly ask what Jesus would drive.
"It is our view that FDA has not taken a strong public-health-protective position with regard to mercury pollution, " he said.
Installing modern and widely-available pollution control technologies can reduce more than 90% of the mercury pollution that is harming both children's health and our environment.
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The coal plant owners complied, mercury pollution dropped significantly, the lights stayed on, utility rates didn't go up, and there was no a wave of plants shutting down.
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We know that our country is stronger when we can count on affordable health care and Medicare and Social Security. (Applause.) When we protect our kids from toxic dumping and mercury pollution.
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In 2006 the Illinois Pollution Control Board adopted mercury pollution standards of its own, which required all coal plants to install technologies to reduce mercury pollution by 90% or more by 2009 and 2013.
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These standards were called for by the Clean Air Act Amendments more than 20 years ago and level the playing field for the many utilities that have already invested in modern mercury pollution control technologies.
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He said new facilities would not be required to have mercury pollution controls for five years after the treaty came into force, with existing facilities given a decade before they had to begin their control efforts.
Just a few weeks ago, thanks to the hard work of so many of you, Lisa and I was able to announce new common-sense standards to better protect the air we breathe from mercury and other harmful air pollution.
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While a certain amount of mercury in the environment is natural, a growing worldwide pollution, especially of our oceans, appears to be increasing the risk of high mercury levels in some of the fish we eat.
In the mid 1990s, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says that mercury emissions from coal plants totaled 1, 850 pounds per year.
By installing pollution control equipment that cut all of its releases that include mercury, it avoided significant legal battles while also improving its system reliability.
William Hite, general president of the United Association of Plumbers and Pipe Fitters, says that while his union is "certainly concerned" about the potential for job losses, the mercury rule could also create thousands of jobs for workers who build and install pollution control equipment.
For example, our New Jersey coal plants with their various pollution-control systems have been able to reduce, by over 90 percent, emissions of mercury, acid gases and soot.
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