Group: New England Not Reducing Mercury
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If environmental policy were scored like grade-school spelling tests, New England's mercury reduction efforts wouldn't get any gold stars.
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A federal appeals court struck down the Bush administration approach to limiting mercury emissions by power plants Friday, ruling that the government failed to adequately consider the policy's effect on public health and the environment.
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By KEVIN MILLER; OF THE NEWS STAFF  Environmental and health groups say the presence of dozens of industrial chemicals in 13 Mainers who volunteered for a study underscores the need for new policies to protect the public from potential toxins found in everyday consumer products.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - A U.S. advisory panel on   Thursday said a government report that found no evidence of   health problems from silver, mercury-based dental fillings was   incomplete and urged more study.
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New England badly needs new supplies of liquefied natural gas, the country's top energy regulator said yesterday, but he's skeptical of calls for regional decision-making about where to put controversial LNG unloading and storage facilities.
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Nine chlorine plants in the South and East pour at least eight tons of mercury into the environment each year &#151; a situation that demands federal action to force companies to convert to cleaner technology, activists said Wednesday.
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By CHRIS MORRIS  BRUDENELL, P.E.I. (CP) - A coalition of environmental groups says Eastern Canadian provinces are lagging behind the New England states in controlling greenhouse gas emissions.  Canadian and U.S.
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Strict rules for crematoria to limit mercury pollution from tooth fillings have been announced.
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Federal health officials want to know if a government report reasonably concludes that silver dental fillings aren't dangerous even though they expose patients to toxic mercury.
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DURHAM, N.H. -- For virtually the entire season, they have been the team to beat in Hockey East. They have been consistent, stingy in allowing goals and proficient at generating them. They have lost back-to-back games only once and that was in late October. When league coaches talk about the gold standard, they point to the University of New Hampshire.
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NEW YORK, December 23  - The worldâs largest gold producer Newmont Mining (NEM.NYS) admitted yesterday that it had released 17 tons of waste mercury into the air, and another 16 tons into the water over a period of five years from its
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Laksamana.Net - US gold mining giant Newmont has admitted releasing tons of mercury into the air and water over several years at its mine in North Sulawesi province, but denies there was any health impact on local villagers.
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The nation's largest gold-producing state is being asked to investigate whether mercury emissions from its mines are contaminating area fisheries.
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NEW YORK  - A new study adds to evidence that mercury-containing dental fillings do not harm children's brain development, as some have feared.
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VERNON, Vt. -- Amid the protests that have erupted over nuclear power plants in New England, the Vermont Yankee plant here has long operated as an oasis of calm. Perched on the Connecticut River about 10 miles from the Massachusetts border, the 32-year-old reactor provides a third of Vermont's electricity.
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A regional environmental group Monday released a comprehensive "climate change roadmap" to reduce pollution linked to global warming by 75 percent in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.
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Researchers are urging the US Food and Drug Administration to lower the mercury level in commercial fish. In a study on canned fish published in this month&#39;s Journal of Food Science