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 understanding of mercury when published in 1997.

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