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Mercury Poisoning In Child Causes Brain Damage

Governor Blagojevich's mercury reduction plan is a home run.  It will protect our children's health and environment by reducing 90 percent of the mercury pollution from Illinois coal plants,” said Howard Learner, Executive Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center.  “We commend the Governor on his leadership and look forward to working with his agencies to implement these strong standards for installing modern pollution control technology on Illinois coal plants.”
 
“If enacted, this proposal will not only protect the health of Illinois children, it will also set an example for America to follow in addressing a major public health problem,” said Jack Darin, Director of the Sierra Club, Illinois Chapter.  “Mothers and women hoping to have children shouldn't have to worry that by eating fish and feeding it to their kids that they could be doing permanent damage to a child's brain.  We hope Illinois power plants will heed Gov. Blagojevich's call to clean up their act and protect our children's health.  The technology to protect our kids is available, affordable, and it’s time we put it on these smokestacks.”

By requiring Illinois power plants to cut 90% or more of their mercury pollution by 2009, this administration is making it clear that putting our children at risk for brain damage is not an acceptable cost of doing business in this state,” said Rebecca Stanfield, Executive Director of the Illinois Public Interest Research Group. Mercury is a poison that hits the most sensitive among us -- children, women and subsistence anglers -- from fish consumption in Lake Michigan and other state waters. We  commend Gov. Blagojevich for his stand in recognizing that Lake Michigan and the public health are too important to leave unprotected by weak federal measures,” said Cameron Davis, Executive Director of the Alliance for the Great Lakes.

The new emission standards are expected to provide economic benefits across the state.  Construction jobs will be created as companies invest in pollution control equipment and installation for their coal-fired power plants. And as mercury levels drop, the state’s fishing industry may also see a boost because the fish will be safer to eat.

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