http://blog.nwf.org/2011/12/we-cant-fillet-our-way-out-of-mercury-in-fish/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Thu, 23 May 2013 00:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.nwf.org/2011/12/we-cant-fillet-our-way-out-of-mercury-in-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-14120 Outdoors-women Tells U.S. Senate to Fight Smokestack Pollution : Wildlife Promise Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:42:02 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=37591#comment-14120 [...] December, over 14,000 Michigan conservationists participated in a tele-town forum on the impacts of mercury pollution and the importance of the Environmental Protection Agency’s EPA’s new mercury and air toxics [...]

]]> http://blog.nwf.org/2011/12/we-cant-fillet-our-way-out-of-mercury-in-fish/comment-page-1/#comment-11484 Great Lakes: The Year In Review « Great Lakes on the Ground Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:09:31 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=37591#comment-11484 [...] EPA is issuing mercury reduction rules for power plants: EPA on December 16 is scheduled to finalize its rules for reducing mercury emissions for power plants, the leading source of mercury in the Great Lakes and inland lakes and streams. All of the Great Lakes states have statewide fish consumptions advisories warning people to restrict or avoid entirely their consumption of certain fish because of mercury contamination. The U.S. House has passed bills to attempt to roll back the EPA protections,  but those bills are unlikely to go anywhere in the Senate.Michigan Out-Of-Doors former TV host Bob Garner led a Tele-Town Hall on the mercury rule this month attended by 14,000 hunters and anglers. As Bob said, “We can’t fillet our way out” of mercury in fish. [...]

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