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EPA reduces mercury levels in fish
28 December 2007US - The US Environmental Protection Agency has approved a plan to reduce mercury levels in fish throughout New England and New York.
The EPA said the plan calls for a 98 per cent reduction from 1998 levels of mercury from atmospheric sources. The goal is make mercury levels in fish low enough for the states to lift fish consumption advisories.
The plan was created through a "high level of collaboration with the Northeast states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont, and the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission," the agency said Thursday in a release.
Source: EarthTimes.org
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