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Portland Mercury: Beware the zombie hordes! A peak inside Portland's Emergency Coordination Center
2014-01-07 16:07:57| PortlandOnline
News story posted to portlandmercury.com January 6, 2014.
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01.08.14 -- Low-Cost, Nondestructive Technology Cuts Risk From Mercury Hot Spots
2014-01-07 01:41:12| pollutiononline News Articles
01/08/14 Pollution Online Newsletter
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New Low-Cost, Nondestructive Technology Cuts Risk From Mercury Hot Spots
2014-01-06 03:22:43| pollutiononline News Articles
Hot spots of mercury pollution in aquatic sediments and soils can contaminate local food webs and threaten ecosystems, but cleaning them up can be expensive and destructive
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Tar-sands mining in Canada is unleashing mercury pollution
2014-01-03 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Drilling for tar-sands oil in Alberta has long been recognized as a driver of climate change, helping to nudge the mercury up in thermometers around the world. Now, it appears that it`s also dousing the Canadian province with straight-up mercury pollution. Canadian government researchers have discovered that oil-sands operations have puffed out mercury over 4.7 million acres of northeast Alberta, boosting levels to as much as 16 times higher than background levels. Mercury is a potent poison that`s...
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New York Adopts Mercury Thermostat Producer Responsibility Law
2013-12-23 15:46:00| Waste Age
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a producer responsibility law for the collection of mercury thermostats. read more
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