A resolution recognizing that mercury pollution can cause severe health problems, including permanent brain damage, kidney damage, and birth defects.

This Senate resolution states that mercury pollution can cause health problems, including permanent brain damage, kidney damage, and birth defects. It lists findings that burning coal, oil, and natural gas releases mercury, that fossil fuel power plants are the largest U.S. source of mercury emissions, and that eating fish from contaminated water is the most common way people are exposed. It expresses the view of the Senate that the Environmental Protection Agency should not loosen controls on mercury pollution from power plants. The resolution does not create new law or require any action.

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Sponsors

• Sheldon Whitehouse Democrat sponsor
• 8 cosponsors