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"Mercury Taints Great Lakes, Groups Say. Environmentalists: Polluted Rain is Poisoning Water." USA Today, 15 September 99, 3A.
Twenty environmental groups are charging that coal-fired power plants are causing the Great Lakes to be contaminated by "'mercury rain'", a claim that is being disputed as scientifically invalid by the Edison Electric Institute.
Measurements of mercury levels made by area colleges and universities over the last six years (funded by EPA, who canceled funding last year) showed, for example, that trace amounts of mercury in Detroit rain were "as high as 65 times the safe levels established" by EPA.
"New York Threatens to Sue Coal-Fired Plants." Wall Street Journal, 16 September 99, B4.
New York's state attorney Eliot Spitzer has sent letters to the owners of 17 coal-fired power plants in Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, threatening to sue them under the Clear Air Act. New York is saying the plants have made modifications to their facilities that no longer qualify them for protected grandfathered status under the Act.
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