Gladwyn d’Souza#RegulatoryCapture #FavoredTreatment: Combined these three plants alone emit close to a thousand pounds of #mercury per year, out of a U.S. total of six thousand pounds & unknown amounts of other #toxicmetals. impacts include neurological damages to #children and #developingfetuses & #cardiovasculardamage, #endocrinedisruption, #diabetesrisk, and weakened #immunesystems.
Spewing Out Mercury - Legal Planet
In Ireland, poor people used to burn peat from fuel. Barely a step ahead of that, some American power plants burn semi-fossilized peat (lignite) to run their generators. It turns out that those power plants produce about a third of all the toxic mercury emissions of the entire industry. Even more remarkably, about half of … Continue reading "Spewing Out Mercury"