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Will your insurance pay for compact fluorescent light bulb mercury cleanup?
Compact fluorescent light bulbs contain mercury, a dangerous neurotoxin. The amount of mercury is large enough that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has published instructions on how to safely clean up a broken CFL bulb. Russell Longcore writes at BestArticle.com: … Continue reading
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CFL light bulbs are making a terrible mercury pollution problem even worse
An Associated Press story about mercury pollution in the United States has this shocking news: No fish can escape mercury pollution. That’s the take-home message from a federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday that tested fish from nearly 300 … Continue reading
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Dangerous misinformation about mercury in compact fluorescent light bulbs
Proponents of compact fluorescent light bulbs often play down the fact that these light bulbs contain mercury, a dangerous neurotoxin. For example, Cindi Hinton dishes out this nonsense on Examiner.com: They only contain 1.4 to 4 milligrams of mercury. That’s … Continue reading
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America is still oblivious to light bulb dangers
Awareness of the dangers from compact fluorescent light bulbs isn’t what it should be. How should people dispose of these dangerous light bulbs? This issue recently came before a committee of the Aiken County Council in South Carolina, according to … Continue reading
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