On September 13, Maine Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe led efforts to pass a Senate resolution to send flawed mercury rules back to the EPA with a directive to implement a MACT (maximum achievable control technology) standard to protect our nation’s children and wildlife from needless exposure to poisonous mercury pollution. The measure failed Read More
Mercury Pollution
NRCM Applauds Sen. Collins’ Leadership Efforts to Force Senate Vote on EPA Power Plant Mercury Pollution Rule:
Rule Triples Allowable Mercury Levels, Harms Children Statement by Brownie Carson, NRCM executive director “Today, Senator Collins is joining with Senator Patrick Leahy to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution disapproving of the Bush administration rule that exempts mercury from power plants from being treated as a hazardous air pollutant. Thirty senators have signed the Read More
NRCM Files Suit Challenging U.S. EPA Air Toxics Rule
NRCM news release Washington, D.C. – Today the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) filed suit in the federal Court of Appeals challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to remove power plants from the list of industrial pollution sources requiring strict controls for mercury and other toxic air pollutant emissions. “Merely declaring that Read More
Maine Leaders Renew Their Commitment to Combat Mercury Pollution
Portland, Maine –U.S. Representatives Tom Allen and Mike Michaud, Maine Attorney General Steve Rowe and Everett “Brownie” Carson, Executive Director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) today renewed their commitment to a unified effort to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate mercury air emissions as a hazardous substance under the Read More
In Support of LD 185, An Act To Amend the Law on Mercury-added Products
NRCM Urges Senator Collins to Investigate Fraudulent Mercury Rule
In response to Tuesday’s Washington Post report that the Environmental Protection Agency decided to ignore Harvard University researchers’ analysis of health benefits from reducing mercury pollution from power plants, the Clean Air Task Force, National Wildlife Federation and Natural Resources Council of Maine, are renewing their request that Senator Susan Collins, as Chair of the Read More
EPA Triples Allowable Power Plant Mercury Emissions
NRCM will fight for Maine kids Statement by Brownie Carson, NRCM executive director “The Environmental Protection Agency has dishonored its name and ignored its responsibility by allowing lax controls on the mercury pollution from coal burning power plants that poison Maine children and wildlife. “A dark cloud hangs over Washington, DC. The Bush Administration has Read More
16,896 Mercury-laden Car Switches Collected Under Maine’s Landmark Program!
At the urging of NRCM, in 2002 Maine lawmakers passed a first-in-the-nation law to require carmakers to pay to collect harmful mercury switches from junked cars before scrapping them. Maine’s car mercury switch law was challenged in court by the carmakers, but the law prevailed. In December 2004, NRCM released a survey of car dismantlers Read More
21% of Women Tested Nationwide Have Mercury Levels Higher than EPA Limit
Augusta and Washington – Today the Natural Resources Council of Maine released Maine and national results from a Mercury Hair Sampling study conducted by the Environmental Quality Institute (EQI) at the University of North Carolina-Asheville and commissioned by Greenpeace and the Mercury Policy Project. The study found mercury levels exceeding the EPA’s recommended limit of Read More
