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“Clean Air For Our Kids”

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Dominique Browning
Managing Editor,


Jessica Capshaw,
Star of “Grey’s Anatomy”


Vickie Patton
General Counsel
Environmental Defense Fund


What does mercury do
to nerve cells?


Growth of a Healthy Snail
Full video available from University of Calgary:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/538419/how_mercury_produces_brain_
damage/


#MCAF
A Nerve After Exposure to Mercury
Full video available from University of Calgary:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/538419/how_mercury_produces_brain_damage/


Kids exposed to chronic, low doses of
mercury can suffer:

• Vision and hearing deficits
• Delayed walking and speech development
• Poor performance on tests of attention, fine-motor
skills, drawing, and verbal memory

EPA estimates that 410,000 infants are
born each year with an unacceptable
level of mercury in their blood.


Where does mercury come from?


Coal-Fired Power Plant
Power plant picture

Photo Courtesy of Michael Durham, ADA Environmental Systems

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Location of Coal and Oil Power
Plants

How does
mercury get in
our bodies?


Every one of the continental U.S. States
has issued mercury fish consumption
advisories for some of its waters.

17 million acres of lakes across America
are under mercury-related fish
contamination advisories – including the
entire Great Lakes Region.


What can we do to reduce
mercury exposure?


National Mercury Reductions: 1990-2005
Time for Coal Plants to Catch Up

Time for Coal Plants to Catch Up
70

60

50
tons per year

40

30
1990
2005
20

10

0
Coal Power Plants Hospital Incineration Municipal Waste Combustors

Source: EPA National Emissions Inventory data for Hazardous Air Pollutants (1990);
National Air Toxics Assessment (2005)


Coal-Fired Power Plant

Photo Courtesy of Michael Durham, ADA Environmental Systems

ACI System for
Mercury

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Controlling air toxics emissions
benefits everyone


These Health Benefits Are Widely Distributed

Threats to Clean Air
Rep. Joe Barton, TX:

“I’m not a medical doctor, but my hypothesis is that’s
[poisoning or premature death] is not going to happen!
You’re not going to get enough mercury exposure or SO2
exposure or even particulate matter exposure!”


Rep. Barton is just one of many
Congressmen who don’t care about
your kids’ health


How you can help:

Raise your voice to defend
your kids’ health!


Many health experts have called for
reduced exposure to mercury:
• American Medical Association
• American Lung Association
• American Nurses Association
• American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Public Health Association
• Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
• American Thoracic Society


www.momscleanairforce.org/what-you-can-do

Abbie Walston Elisa Batista Ana Lilian Flores

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