Senators Collins, Carper Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Track Mercury Pollution Sens. Tom Carper, D-Delaware, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, recently reintroduced the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act, a bipartisan bill that would establish a national mercury monitoring network to protect human health, safeguard fisheries and track the environmental effects of emissions reductions. The senators previously [...]

The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) were finalized in 2011 and currently regulate emissions of mercury, acid gases, and other hazardous air pollutants from US electric utilities. The MATS rule is expected to reduce mercury emissions from the power sector by 90%, improve public health, and play an integral role in meeting US [...]

Hundreds of kilos of toxic mercury is released into the air every year by Chandan Kumar Mandal The first ever inventory prepared to estimate the country's total mercury emissions has recorded that hundreds of kilograms of harmful mercury are released into the air every year. An estimated 6,790 kg of mercury was released into [...]

Beauty S-care: Mercury found way beyond limit in almost half of skin lightening creams available in market By Mahbubur Rahman Khan Sumi Akhter was on the lookout for a skin lightening cream as she wanted to appear fairer at her sister's wedding just two weeks away. She found her desired product at a cosmetics shop [...]