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Binational Toxics Strategy Mercury Workgroup
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This site contains information about the Binational Toxics Strategy Mercury Workgroup (reports, meetings, partners, funding opportunities), about understanding the impact of mercury on human health and the environment and the behavior of mercury in the environment, and, about reducing use and release of mercury, whether through regulation or through sector-specific voluntary activites. The workgroup shares information about cost-effective mercury reduction opportunities, and about meeting the mercury reduction challenges of the Binational Toxics Strategy.
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Mercury Workgroup Reports: Management Assessment; Sources and Regulations, and Reduction Options
- Final GLBTS Management Asessment for Mercury (PDF, 1 page, 982KB) (February 2006)
- Draft Report on Mercury Sources and Regulations (November 1999)
- Draft Report on Mercury Reduction Options (PDF, 146 pp., 864 KB) (September 1, 2000)
Progress Reports on Mercury Reduction
- March 16, 2006 Binational Toxics Strategy memo on progress in reducing mercury emissions and use.
- Mercury Reduction Activities Reported From Around the Great Lakes (1998)
- December 6, 2005, Chicago IL
- May 17, 2005, Toronto, Ontario
- November 30, 2004, Chicago, IL
- June 17, 2004, Toronto, Ontario
- December 16, 2003, Chicago IL (including presentations focused on mercury in lighting).
- May 14-15, 2003, Windsor, Ontario (including presentations on mercury trends in the environment)
- December 2, 2002, Chicago, IL-- Reducing Dental Mercury.
- December 3, 2002, Chicago, IL
- May 30, 2002 Windsor, Ontario
Funding for Mercury-Related Projects
- The Great Lakes National Program Office's (GLNPO) Great Lakes Program Funding.
Participants in the Binational Toxics Strategy Mercury Workgroup
States/Provinces
- Illinois Environmental Protection Agency
- Indiana Department of Environmental Management
- Michigan Department of Environmental Quality
- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- New York Department of Environmental Conservation (in Environmental Protection Agency Region 2)
Federal Government
- Environment Canada's mercury Web site.
- US Environmental Protection Agency's mercury Web site.
- Great Lakes National Program Office's Options Paper on Developing a Vitual Elimination Strategy For Mercury.
Environmental Groups
- The Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Roundtable's Mercury Topic Hub
- The Mercury Policy Project works to "raise awareness about the threat of mercury contamination" and "to promote policies to eliminate mercury uses and significantly reduce mercury exposures."
- National Wildlife Federation has a variety of mercury-related projects.
- The Wisconsin Stewardship Network has a mercury page.
Industry
- The Council of Great Lakes Industries Web site promotes participation in the Binational Toxics Strategy, publicizes success stories, and includes presentations and comments on BNS reports and activities.