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Better estimates of worldwide mercury pollution

Original story at MIT News Once mercury is emitted into the atmosphere from the smokestacks of power plants, the pollutant has a complicated trajectory; even after it settles onto land and sinks into oceans, mercury can be re-emitted back into the atmosphere repeatedly. This so-called “grasshopper ...

Aug. 11, 2015

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Global Agreement on Mercury Pollution In the Works

The soaring price of gold may be increasing mercury pollution locally and worldwide. The poisonous heavy metal is used to extract gold from ore in many artisanal mining operations which involve millions of workers and their families. Experts also worry that the increased burning of coal, which naturally contains mercury, is causing the toxic to be released into the air and spread around the ...

Nov. 14, 2007

By Environment News Service (ENS)

The organisers of Mercury 2013, International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP)

From:The organisers of Mercury 2013, International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) To: Journalists When: 4pm Sunday 28th July Where:Soutra Room, Ground Floor, Edinburgh International Conference Centre, The Exchange, Edinburgh, EH3 8EE Why: The ICMGP will address the ...

Jul. 17, 2013

By Environmental Technology Publications Ltd

`Chemical fingerprints` could reveal source of mercury pollution

Scientists have described a new method for tracking down the source of mercury pollution from burning coal. By analysing the chemistry of the pollution, it is possible to identify which region the coal was originally from. Mercury pollution in the atmosphere comes mainly from coal-fired power stations and chemical plants. Mercury is naturally present in coal and is emitted when it is burned as ...

Sep. 17, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

Vote brings US closer to reducing mercury pollution

Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee voted 29-14 to approve H.R. 2190 and move it out of committee. The bill would require chlor-alkali plants to end their use of mercury-based technology in chlorine and caustic soda production. Oceana, an international ocean conservation group that has been working for nearly five years to persuade nine companies to switch from ...

Oct. 23, 2009

By Oceana

Global agreement needed on mercury pollution, says UN

Governments need to accelerate the effort to deliver an international agreement on the poisonous heavy metal mercury Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said today. Experts are becoming increasingly concerned that increased burning of coal-naturally contaminated with mercury-is leading to releases to the air in some parts of the world from where it can spread ...

Nov. 12, 2007

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

The 12th ICMGP, International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant

The 12th ICMGP, International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, will be held in Jeju, Korea, June 14-19, 2015. Lumex leading experts will present new advances and applications of Zeeman atomic absorption spectroscopy for fast selective mercury determination in all media. At our booth you will see our most recent achievements in developing Zeeman AAS instrumentation: portable, ...

Jun. 8, 2015

By Lumex Instruments Group

Albatrosses’ survival seriously threatened by mercury and pollutants

Mercury and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) reduce albatrosses’ chances of successfully breeding, a recent study finds. These pollutants add to the list of environmental pressures, including climate change, disease and fishery bycatch, affecting this highly threatened species. Seabirds, such as albatrosses, are at risk of consuming high levels of pollutants that accumulate up through ...

Sep. 25, 2014

By European Commission, Environment DG

U.S. EPA proposes to eliminate mercury pollution from dentist offices nationwide

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a proposal to eliminate mercury pollution from dental offices nationwide. These new Clean Water Act standards would cut discharges of dental amalgam - a mixture of mercury and other metals that dentists use to fill cavities. Under this proposal, dentists must use devices to remove mercury and other toxic metals before they go down the ...

Sep. 25, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA issues first national standards for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and toxic ...

Dec. 21, 2011

By GLOBE Foundation

Global Treaty on Mercury Pollution Gets Boost from United States

The United States has strengthened the international effort to bring down emissions and releases of a notorious heavy metal after simultaneously signing and ratifying the Minamata Convention on Mercury. The treaty, adopted on 10 October in the Japanese city of Kumamoto and named after the place where thousands of people were poisoned by mercury in the mid-20th century, has now been signed by 93 ...

Nov. 7, 2013

By United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Mercury workshops in South Africa

In March Lumex Instruments company took part in several workshops in South Africa, which are devoted to the problems of mercury pollution, its sources and impact. Two events – Energy Efficiency & Emissions workshop and 12th annual Mercury Emissions from Coal workshop – were organized by ...

Mar. 23, 2017

By Lumex Instruments Group

Momentum builds for ‘Mercury 2013’

Mercury is moving towards the top of the agenda for regulatory bodies and interest from the public domain is growing. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) now defines mercury as “the pollutant of greatest concern”. In response to this, the organisers of the 11thInternational Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (ICMGP) are finalising plans for an event that will bring ...

Oct. 15, 2012

By Environmental Technology Publications Ltd

EPA issues first national standards for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollution like arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide. The standards will slash emissions of these dangerous pollutants by relying on widely available, proven pollution controls that ...

Dec. 21, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Mercury 2013 Press Conference

Panel: Loic Viatte, Swedish Ministry for the Environment Dr Lesley Sloss, Chair of Mercury 2013 and Principal Environmental Consultant at IEA Clean Coal Centre and Lead - Coal Mercury Partnership area at the UNEP John Topper, Managing Director, IEA Clean Coal Centre and Managing Director of the GHG Group Dr David Piper, Deputy Head of the Chemicals ...

Jul. 28, 2013

By Environmental Technology Publications Ltd

Understanding the movement of mercury in the atmosphere

In order to reduce mercury pollution, we need to understand its movement in the global atmosphere. A UN report summarises current information on mercury transport in the atmosphere and indicates that intensive global monitoring is needed to inform and evaluate policy. As a result of EU policy1, European emissions of mercury have dropped considerably in recent decades, decreasing by about 60 per ...

Sep. 17, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

Mercury in fish is a global health concern

As the world’s governments convene next week to discuss developing a legally binding treaty on mercury, citizens’ groups from around the world have released a new report calling attention to the significant global human health hazards caused bymercury in fish and fish-eating marine mammals. The international Zero Mercury Working Group (1) released the study, which maintains that the problem ...

Feb. 13, 2009

By Health and Environment Alliance

Mercury Marine`s environmental stewardship

A recent expansion at Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac Wisconsin has caught the attention of professionals in the energy and environmental industries. At an event this past May, the Wisconsin Association of Energy Engineers (WAEE) showcased Mercury's new process equipment and pollution control system. The 75 attendees consisted of facility engineers, plant managers, project managers, ...

Jun. 1, 2015

By Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc.

EPA proposes first national standard for mercury pollution from power plants // “mercury and air toxics standards” represent one of strongest health protections from air pollution since passage of clean air act

In response to a court deadline, today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first-ever national standards for mercury, arsenic and other toxic air pollution from power plants. The new Power Plant Mercury and Air Toxics Standards – which eliminate 20 years of uncertainty across industry – would require many power plants to install widely available, proven ...

Mar. 16, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Forest fires increase mercury emissions

Mercury is a global pollutant arising from many sources, including biomass burning (BMB), which includes both wildfires and intentional fires to clear land. A recent study estimates that mercury emissions from BMB make up 8 per cent of total global mercury emissions. Mercury emissions from BMB have received growing attention. Forests in particular act as mercury sinks because atmospheric mercury ...

Jun. 19, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

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