Fact Sheets

	EPA Proposes Options for Significantly Reducing Mercury Emissions from Electric Utilities (In Adobe Acrobat PDF format) Fact sheet outlining EPA's proposed rule that would reduce mercury emissions and would set mandatory declining caps on the total mercury emissions allowed from power plants nationwide.
	EPA Decision to Regulate Utility Mercury Emissions (12/00) (In Adobe Acrobat PDF format | En Español) Fact sheet outlining EPA's decision to regulate mercury and other air toxics emitted from coal- and oil-fired power plants.
	EPA's Final Regulation to Ban Mixing Zones in the Great Lakes (11/00) This action prohibits new discharges of toxic chemicals, including mercury, into mixing zones and phases out the use of existing mixing zones in the Great Lakes over the next 10 years.
	Reducing Mercury Use in Health Care (3/99) A manual to help hospitals start mercury pollution prevention programs or accelerate programs that have already begun.
	Keeping Mercury out of Medical Waste (3/98) Fact sheet on the concerns and problems associated with disposing of mercury medical waste.
	Mercury Emissions and Electric Utilities (In Adobe Acrobat PDF format) Fact sheet summarizing the 1998 Mercury Study Report to Congress.

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