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High mercury found in eggs This makes me mad. Loon eggs have the highest levels of mercury in eight years due to pollution from power plant emissions in New Hampshire. Coal burning plants put out 80,000 pounds of toxic mercury each year. Recall that 1/10 of a pound of mercury in a 10 acre lake would be enough for the EPA to put an advisory on the lake to not eat the fish. This is 80,000 pounds of mercury!!! The original EPA plan to handle this was proposed by the Clinton administration in 2000 and called for the cuts of the mercury emissions from utilities to take effect in 2008. Now if the Bush administration extends the time, mercury emissions won't begin to be capped until 2018. This will result in hundreds of tons of extra mercury emissions. Based on reports from the Centers for Disease Control, one in 12 women of childbearing age has mercury levels in their blood that exceed levels that the Environmental Protection Agency says is safe for fetuses. What occurs is that the 40 tons of mercury from the coal burning plants goes into the air, falls into local waters, and then is taken up by plant and fish life. Then when we eat the fish, or in this case, the loons eat the fish, they get contaminated with the mercury. The mercury is passed from the hen into the eggs. Mercury is a known teratogen (causes birth deformities), neurotoxin, and cancer inducer. This study looked at the mercury level in loon eggs as a function of how contaminated the environment was. It seems to me that once this was made known, that a fast track program should be undertaken to clamp down on these emissions now and not use stalling tactics and schemes to trade pollution credits from cleaner facilities to dirtier ones. Do you agree? High mercury found in eggs Researcher: Data contradicts Bush policy  |