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Public invited to mercury toxicity event

The organisers of the ‘Mercury 2013’ International Conference have created a free open day for members of the public on Sunday 28th July. “Anyone with concerns about the amount of seafood in their diet, or about dental fillings or exposure to mercury in past science lessons, or simply a scientific interest in mercury as a toxic pollutant, can come along and have their hair or ...

May 6, 2013

By Environmental Technology Publications Limited

EPA to hold public hearing in Chicago on national standard for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public hearing on May 24, 2011 on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing as many as ...

May 3, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to hold public hearing in Atlanta on national standard for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a public hearing on May 26, 2011 on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing as many as ...

May 3, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to hold public hearing on national standard for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a public hearing in Philadelphia on May 24, 2011 on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing ...

May 3, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

On-site mercury conversion plant now in full production mode

In February 2018 econ industries started the on-site conversion of mercury. The first job brought the econ team with the mobile econ mercury conversion plant to a former chlor-alkali plant in Eastern Europe. There, excess mercury from the former mercury cell process is now being converted to pure, red mercury sulphide (HgS). The mercury sulphide is then safely disposed at certified underground ...

Jun. 13, 2018

By econ industries services GmbH

EPA to hold three public hearings on national standard for mercury pollution from power plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold three public hearings in May on the proposed mercury and air toxics standards. The new power plant mercury and air toxics standards would require many power plants to install widely available, proven pollution control technologies to cut harmful emissions of mercury, arsenic, chromium, nickel and acid gases, while preventing as many as ...

May 3, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

TODAY: EPA, American lung association to hold press conference to discuss mercury and air toxics standards

Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will join American Lung Association President and CEO Charles D. Connor and American Academy of Pediatrics President O. Marion Burton, M.D., F.A.A.P. to discuss the agency’s mercury and air toxics standards - the first-ever national standards for mercury and other air toxics from coal-fired power plants. They will be ...

Mar. 16, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

NRDC: Blockbuster Clean Air Cases Can Protect Americans’ Health, Save Tens of Thousands of Lives

Oral arguments will be heard in two crucial cases today when the U.S. Supreme Court considers a federal rule to limit power plant sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions that blow across state lines, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court addresses another rule to curb their unhealthy mercury and toxic air pollution. John Walke, Clean Air Director, Natural Resources Defense ...

Dec. 10, 2013

By Natural Resources Defense Council

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 ...

Dec. 21, 2011

By GLOBE SERIES

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-resistant bacteria useful for studying toxic metal cycling

Mercury-resistant bacteria could help scientists to understand more about mercury cycling in the environment. In a new study, researchers identified one particular strain of soil bacterium that could serve as a model for the conversion of the toxic metal into less toxic forms. They also discovered a new gene involved in the conversion process. Bacteria play an important role in the cycling of ...

Jan. 14, 2016

By European Commission, Environment DG

They’re still talking about historic mercury and air toxics standards

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

Dec. 22, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA, state of Colorado join children’s hospital to highlight benefits of new mercury and air toxics standards for power plants

At a ceremony today at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, Colo., representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) joined the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Trout Unlimited, and ADA Environmental Solutions, Inc. to highlight the benefits of EPA’s newly issued Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect ...

Jan. 10, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Updates Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for New Power Plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued updates to pollution limits for new power plants under the mercury and air toxics standards, based on new information and analysis that became available to the agency after the rule was finalized. The updates are largely technical in nature and will have no impact on the sensible, achievable and cost-effective standards already set for ...

Mar. 29, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Stepping on the Gas: Scrubbing 95% of Mercury Emissions with no Waste

Whether we like it or not, the world’s current industrial and energy production infrastructure still depends to a large degree on combustion that emits mercury. Mercury is a lethal pollutant, highly toxic to humans, and as we know from seafood health warnings, continues to contaminate the aquatic food chain... ...

Mar. 8, 2017

By Mercu Removal Ltd

Mercury in (Drinking) Water – Straightforward Determination with Screen-Printed Low-Cost Sensor

Metrohm is pleased to present an Application Bulletin (AB-422) on the straightforward determination of inorganic mercury in water samples by anodic stripping voltammetry using a screen-printed sensor. This method is less expensive and easier to use than competing spectroscopic methods (ICP-MS, AAS) and offers the added benefits that there is no sample preparation required and results are ...

Nov. 13, 2014

By Metrohm AG

Here’s what they’re saying about mercury and air toxics standards

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

Dec. 21, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Mercury in (drinking)water – straightforward determination with screen-printed low-cost sensor

Metrohm is pleased to present an Application Bulletin on the straightforward determination of inorganic mercury in water samples by anodic stripping voltammetry using a screen-printed sensor. This method is less expensive and easier to use than competing spectroscopic methods (ICP-MS, AAS) and offers the added benefits that there is no sample preparation required and results are available within ...

Nov. 13, 2014

By Metrohm AG

Experts to discuss benefits to kansas city metro area from EPA`s proposed standards for Mercury, air toxics pollution from power plants

EPA Regional Administrator Karl Brooks will host a news conference with local environmental and health officials on Tuesday, March 22, in Kansas City, Mo., to discuss potential benefits to the metro area from EPA’s recently proposed national standards for mercury and air toxics pollution from power plants. The Agency is proposing a new rule that represents one of the strongest protections ...

Mar. 21, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EIP `Toxic 10` Report: Power Plants Emitting Most Mercury Account For Nearly a Fifth of All Such Pollution

Even though mercury and other hazardous air pollution from U.S. power plants are declining, the progress at the coal-fired power plants are uneven, leaving in place a significant remaining risk to the health of the public and environment, according to a new report by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP). Coal-burning power plants release millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into the air ...

Jan. 3, 2013

By Environmental Integrity Project