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Frederick Burroughs
 
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-A Bush White House proposal would allow twice as much sulfur dioxide
and three times more mercury emission than if the Clean Air Act were
fully implemented...


West Virginia recently updated consumption advisories for fish caught
in the state, these include limits on fish consumption of fish caught
*statewide*. Most of the mercury pollution in WV results from power
plants and boilers that burn coal as an energy source. For the
advisories, see:
http://www.wvdhhr.org/fish/current.asp#sect3





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