Mercury Study Report to Congress
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EPA's Report to Congress on Mercury is an eight volume document. Our
short overview gives a concise summary of the report.

The Mercury White Paper is an additional summary document related to
the Mercury Study. This 5 page document describes EPA's recent,
ongoing, and planned actions to reduce mercury pollution.

The eight volumes of the December 1997 report are also now available:

Volume I: Executive Summary (PDF 1mb)
Volume II: An Inventory of Anthropogenic Mercury Emissions in the
United States (PDF 1mb)
Volume III: Fate and Transport of Mercury in the Environment (PDF 4mb)
Volume IV: An Assessment of Exposure to Mercury in the United States
(PDF 1mb)
Volume V: Health Effects of Mercury and Mercury Compounds (PDF 1mb)
Volume VI: An Ecological Assessment for Anthropogenic Mercury
Emissions in the United States (PDF 2mb)
Volume VII: Characterization of Human Health and Wildlife Risks from
Mercury Exposure in the United States (PDF 727k)
Volume VIII: An Evaluation of Mercury Control Technologies and Costs
(PDF 826k)

The Report provides an assessment of the magnitude of U.S. mercury
emissions by source, the health and environmental implications of
those emissions, and the availability and cost of control
technologies. As the state-of-the-science for mercury is continuously
and rapidly evolving, this Report should be viewed as a "snapshot" of
our current understanding of mercury.

The Mercury Study is a very large document (approximately 2000 pages
in total). It is not yet available in hard copy, but will be
available in the coming months through the National Technical
Information Service (NTIS) for a cost of approximately $300. We will
post the NTIS number on this web page when the report becomes
available. However, you can obtain all eight volumes (including the
Executive Summary) of the Mercury Study from this web page in
electronic format which can be viewed online or downloaded and
printed if desired.

http://www.epa.gov/oar/mercury.html


Environmental Medicine, Part Three: Long-Term Effects of Chronic Low-
Dose Mercury Exposure
Walter J. Crinnion, ND

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