Most Fish From Lakes Is Too High In Mercury

[UpInArms]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37702-2004Aug3.html

The Environmental Protection Agency has determined that more than half of all freshwater fish it sampled from America's lakes could be unsafe for women of childbearing age to eat twice a week, according to data disclosed by environmental groups.

More than three-quarters of the fish sampled also had mercury levels that may be unhealthy for children younger than 3. The data, collected between 1999 and 2001 on 2,547 fish from 260 lakes, are part of the first-ever nationwide study the EPA has conducted on freshwater fish in an ongoing four-year project.

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Some mercury exposure stems from industrial air pollution that gets into water and the food supply, in part because it builds up in predator fish. Coal-fired power plants rank as the greatest U.S. source of mercury pollution, according to the EPA, and environmentalists say the Bush administration is not doing enough to curb plants' emissions.

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[Sabriel]

1. This is news?

We haven't eaten a fish out of a Wisconsin lake for almost a decade, because of the same warnings. But the coal plants say they're "cleaner" now.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. kick