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Is There Mercury in Your Skin Cream?

Health officials inCaliforniahave traced the mercury poisoning of a 39 year old woman to skin-lightening cream fromMexico. Last month the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that at least 22 people in five households inCaliforniaandVirginiahad used mercury-laced skin-lightening creams made inMexico. Twelve Californians and ten Virginians had elevated levels of mercury in ...

Feb. 23, 2012

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

MAR Systems: Oil Leak Plugged; Mercury Continues to Contaminate US Water Streams

CLEVELAND, OH -- (Marketwire) -- 07/21/10 -- According to reports by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, hundreds of thousands of pounds of mercury, a toxic heavy metal, continue to be released into water streams in the United States each year. MAR Systems Inc., an ...

Jul. 21, 2010

California’s Prop 65 and Public Health Concerns over Mercury and Mercury Compounds

In 1986, California voters approved an initiative to address increasing concerns over exposure to toxic chemicals. That initiative, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, is better known by its original name of Proposition 65. Proposition 65 requires businesses to notify Californians about significant amounts of chemicals in the products they purchase, in their homes or ...

May 1, 2012

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

EPA Continues Cleanup of Mercury Contamination in Ciales, Puerto Rico; Agency Warns Against Handling Toxic Metal

The U.S. Environmental Protection has removed mercury that contaminated several homes and schools in the Parcelas La Cordillera community of Ciales, Puerto Rico and completed the cleanup of the affected homes and schools. The EPA continues to work with the Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board, Emergency Management Agency, Department of Health, Public Buildings Authority and the Department of ...

Jan. 10, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Multibillion dollar market for mercury reduction

There is a multibillion dollar market for the reduction of emissions of mercury to the air on a worldwide basis. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in Mercury Air Reduction Markets. (www.mcilvainecompany.com) Significant conclusions are: The U.S. is leading the way, but other countries are close behind The ...

Feb. 12, 2014

By The McIlvaine Company

Shell choose Jerome analyser for mercury monitoring

ABLE is pleased to announce the order award for their Jerome mercury analyser for the Shell operated Clipper gas production platform. The portable Jerome Analyser will be used during maintenance and engineering activities on the platform and associated satellite wellhead platforms in the Southern sector of the North Sea., approximately 62 km from Bacton.During gas and oil extraction, a mixture of ...

Jul. 17, 2009

By Able Instruments & Controls Ltd

Mercury conference to address global treaty implementation

The International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (#ICMGP) will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 28th July – 2nd August 2013. The event is the 11th in a series that began in Sweden in 1990 and follows closely behind an international agreement to reduce global mercury emissions. Themed ‘Science Informing Global Policy’ the ICMGP events have been created to ...

Jun. 12, 2013

By Environmental Technology Publications Ltd

Continuing nightmare in Bhopal: CSE laboratory tests soil, water samples from Union Carbide

For more than 25 years, the Union Carbide (UCIL) factory has been contaminating the land and water of Bhopal. Latest tests show that groundwater in areas even three km away from the factory contains almost 40 times more pesticides than Indian standards. These are the findings of a study released here today by the New Delhi-based research and advocacy organisation, Centre for Science and ...

Dec. 23, 2009

By Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Apex Instruments releases the XC-260 Meter Console for mercury emissions

Apex Instruments proudly introduces the XC-260 Meter Console for mercury emissions based on U.S. EPA Appendix K of 40 CFR Part 75. This low-cost, portable, field-proven XC-260 Hg Audit System is designed for performance testing, base line studies, and profiling. With the XC-260 Hg Audit System you can manually collect gaseous mercury emissions over a period of several minutes to several hours. ...

Feb. 7, 2007

By Apex Instruments, Inc.

CORMETECH Sales of COMET™ Mercury Oxidation SCR Catalyst top 7000MW in 2013

Multiple utilities have applied Cormetech's COMET™ SCR catalyst technology in consideration of the EPA MATS rule which requires a decrease in the amount of mercury emissions. Over the past two years, Cormetech has designed and commissioned multiple unique solutions of this cutting edge technology to increase ...

May 3, 2013

By Cormetech, Inc.

Mercury Reduction Requirements Generate Billion Dollar Market Opportunity

The new regulations to reduce mercury emissions are creating a market for products and services of hundreds of millions of dollars per year and a five year market in excess of $1 billion. This is the conclusion of the McIlvaine Company in its Air Pollution Management online service. These totals are extracted from the more specific McIlvaine reports on air pollution monitoring and sampling, ...

Feb. 23, 2007

By The McIlvaine Company

Mercury in the Petrochemical Industry – Applications for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)

For many years P S Analytical has been at the forefront of developments relating to the measurement of mercury in the Petrochemical Industry. P S Analytical’s measurement systems are based on the PSA 10.525 Sir Galahad atomic fluorescence instrument. The Sir Galahad is a very flexible system, and using a combination of hardware and software, the PSA Research and Development team have been able ...

Apr. 23, 2007

By P S Analytical Limited

Mercury Exposure and Health Effects Discussed in New Online Video

Today, the IAQ Video Network and Cochrane & Associates announced the release of another online video to help educate the public about issues that may impact their health. The latest educational video discusses mercury in both the indoor and outdoor environments. Mercury is a naturally occurring element that is found in air, water and soil. It exists in several ...

Sep. 9, 2012

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

US clean air mercury law will `significantly` impact on power plants

When the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR) was vacated by a Federal Court last month, it set in motion a number of activities which will significantly impact the power plants and the suppliers. Decisions already made must be reviewed and flexibility initiated to cope with the uncertainties. Since many expensive projects are underway, and since it may be months or years before a clear federal ...

Mar. 5, 2008

By The McIlvaine Company

Milestone project demonstrates innovative mercury emissions reduction technology

An innovative technology that could potentially help some coal-based power generation facilities comply with anticipated new mercury emissions standards was successfully demonstrated in a recently concluded milestone project at a Michigan power plant. Under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), WE Energies demonstrated ...

Jan. 12, 2010

By National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL)

$2 billion/yr market for mercury removal from stack gases

The market for equipment and consumables to measure and remove mercury from stack gases will average over $2 billion/yr over the next decade. This is the latest forecast in the online McIlvaine "Mercury Air Reduction Markets". There are three immediate markets, all are in the U.S. They are cement, utility boilers and industrial boilers. Hundreds of millions of dollars has already been spent ...

Jul. 20, 2010

By The McIlvaine Company

Calgon Carbon Awarded Contract to Supply FLUEPAC® for Mercury Removal

Calgon Carbon Corporation (NYSE: CCC) announced that it has been awarded a contract by a major U.S. power generator to supply FLUEPAC® brominated powdered activated carbon (PAC) to remove mercury from the fluegas of coal-fired power plants in the Midwest. The value of the contract is estimated to be $16 to $22 million. The two-year contract follows the expiration of a five-year, take-or-pay ...

Feb. 19, 2013

By Calgon Carbon Corporation

P S Analytical Online Mercury in Natural Gas Analyser Achieves ATEX Certification

As part of its ongoing product development P S Analytical has recently received the ATEX EC-Type certification permitting our online mercury measurement system for natural gas to be installed in Category 2 IIC T4 designated areas. The procedure used for the measurement of mercury by atomic fluorescence basically follow the ASTM 6350-98 and ISO 6978-2 procedure and the PSA 10.670 is specifically ...

Apr. 23, 2007

By P S Analytical Limited

Mercury in the Petrochemical Industry – Applications for Control and Certification, utilising the power of Atomic Fluorescence Spectrometry

P S Analytical stands at the forefront of technological developments for industries relating to the measurement of mercury. Recent inroads into instrumentation and applications have secured our position as the manufacturer of choice for the determination of mercury in petrochemical products for gaseous, liquid or solid matrices. The award of the ISO 9001:2000 standard and ATEX ...

Feb. 18, 2008

By P S Analytical Limited

Waste electrical and electronic equipment firm`s failure left staff with mercury poisoning

A director from the Electrical Waste Recycling Group in Huddersfield will be sentenced next year for breaching health and safety charges. According to the Yorkshire Post (24 November) workers at the waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling plant became sick with mercury poisoning ...

Dec. 9, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

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