mercury
Tell Duke CEO Jim Rogers To CANCEL CLIFFSIDE!
Submitted by BrianR on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 6:41pm.Recently Duke Energy received permission from the State of North Carolina to build a new coal fired power plant in Cliffside, North Carolina. Despite the facts that this new plant could be a major polluter of CO2, mercury, and evaporate 21 million gallons of water each day. You can find all the details here on NC Warn's website.
Sugar-Frosted Mercury Corn Bombs! Part of a balanced breakfast.
Submitted by stormbear on Mon, 07/23/2007 - 8:29am.Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing
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Mercury Rising
Submitted by gregflynn on Wed, 11/15/2006 - 2:22am.
I was about to do a different story on the John Locke Foundation when I stumbled over the latest toxic sludge that oozed out from under the curtain of the Puppetshow: "Fish Tales about Mercury, Why regulation of mercury is all cost and no benefit", or as claimed later in the article: "Methylmercury Generally Is Not a Public Health Concern". Go suck some thermometers boys and belly up to the barometers, mercury is rising! In elemental form mercury is not especially toxic until inhaled as vapor but in aquatic ecosystems it is converted to methylmercury, its most toxic form, which bioaccumulates in fish.
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