CLEAN Air – Fired up: TXU’s coal plan puts Texans’ health at risk:
Power plant mercury pollution puts our babies at risk for permanent brain damage. We need 90 percent mercury reductions from all sources in order to protect health. TCEQ’s weak mercury proposals would allow mercury to increase over the next four years. Eleven Texas [...]

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Needed U.S. autism study stalled due to politics – The Clarion-Ledger:
Recently, a glimmer of hope emerged from the hallowed Senate chambers when the U.S. Senate passed the Combating Autism Act by unanimous vote. It is hard to imagine the Senate acting in a unanimous, bi-partisan manner to pass a bill sponsored by Pennsylvania’s controversial Sen. [...]

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