Re: ABC News on Mercury

[Guest guest]

Interesting.

Along with the study about high autism rates in Texas school

districts with high mercury emissions.

http://tinyurl.com/68ssl - links to the abstract of the article;

pwatson downloaded the complete text and posted it in message 22442.

" The association between environmentally released mercury, special

education and autism rates in Texas was investigated using data from

the Texas Education Department and the United States Environmental

Protection Agency.... There was a significant increase in the rates

of special education students and autism rates associated with

increases in environmentally released mercury. On average, for each

1000 lb of environmentally released mercury, there was a 43% increase

in the rate of special education services and a 61% increase in the

rate of autism.... "

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ABC News talked about mercury in the environment tonight. No mention

about mercury in vaccinations or amalgams, but mention of emissions,

mercury coming from pollution from other countries, mercury in fish

and the risk to children and pregnant women. It did mention that

630,000 babies a year are at risk because of mercury and 6 percent

of pregnant women in the United States have high levels of mercury

in their body.

> http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=583797 & page=1

> WASHINGTON Mar 15, 2005 †" The Bush administration on Tuesday

ordered power plants to cut mercury pollution from smokestacks by

nearly half within 15 years but left an out for the worst polluters.

> The Environmental Protection Agency said the cuts would help

protect pregnant women, women of childbearing age and young children

from a toxic metal that causes nerve damage. Critics said the

arrangement fell far short of what was needed, and they promised to

fight it.

> " The United States is the first nation to take a leadership role in

> addressing the problem of mercury from power plants, " said

Holmstead, EPA's top air pollution official.

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