Mercury is a neurotoxic metal that can cause irreparable harm to human health – especially the brain development of young ...

The action could allow the plants to release more dangerous heavy metals, including brain-damaging mercury and cancer-causing arsenic, marking yet another step by the administration to reverse Biden ...

Long assumed by some to have been diluted and washed away over time, mercury contamination from 19th-century gold mining is still moving through Nevada’s Carson River, with levels in some waterfowl ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repealed Biden-era regulations that forced power plants to cut harmful pollutants including brain-damaging mercury and particulate matter, EPA ...

EPA is working on repealing major air‑pollution rules for fossil‑fuel power plants, including weakening protections against mercury and other toxic emissions.

Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA announced the creation of an engineered bacterium that has the ability to convert the toxic form of mercury present in ...

In an effort to create more energy, the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Friday announced its plans to loosen limits on mercury pollution from coal- and oil-fired power ...

Scripps Oceanography biogeochemist Amina Schartup in the lab. (Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego) New research from UC San Diego’s Scripps Oceanography Institute and UCLA points toward a potential ...