Groups Press for Action On Global Mercury Crisis: Concurrent Conference Will Identify Solutions to Mercury Problems

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MADISON, Wis., Aug. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An advocacy forum, "Finding Solutions to the Global Mercury Crisis," will be held next week alongside a science meeting, the "International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant."

Early drafts of the science meeting's "synthesis manuscript" - - expected to be published after the meeting -- suggest an overemphasis on the uncertainties about mercury rather than recommendations for action or specific solutions to known mercury problems. In contrast, the NGO meeting will present information on available, effective, common sense solutions that will reduce mercury releases and provide health and environmental benefits.

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Groups Press for Action On Global Mercury Crisis: Concurrent Conference Will Identify Solutions to Mercury Problems

"The UN and a host of countries -- including the US -- have already acknowledged, and I quote, 'sufficient evidence of significant global adverse impacts from merc...

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