Limiting the amount of mercury:
- Emitted into the air from specific sources
- Discharged into water from specific sources
- In your drinking water
- Disposed of in landfills and surface impoundments
And also:
- Understanding what levels of mercury pollution might affect human health
- Measuring and monitoring
- Cleaning up sites contaminated with mercury
- Providing consumers, states and tribes with guidance to reduce exposures
- Developing and demonstrating technologies to prevent mercury emissions into the air
- Participating in international projects
- Engaging in partnerships and consumer outreach to promote voluntary reductions in mercury use and releases
For details, please see:
What EPA is Doing to Reduce Mercury Pollution, and Exposures to Mercury
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