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GENEVA, Jan. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After four years of deliberation, a new global regime rises today that will govern toxic mercury worldwide. The new treaty is a mixture of mandatory and voluntary elements intended to control the burgeoning global mercury crisis. While heading in the right direction, the Zero Mercury Working Group(i), expressed concerns about the treaty not reaching far enough nor fast enough to address the spiraling human health risks from mercury...

Final International Mercury Treaty Negotiation Begins Jan. 13 GORHAM, Maine, Jan. 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new scientific report finds that humans and marine ecosystems around the world are contaminated with mercury and that mercury levels in humans and fish regularly exceed health advisory guidelines. The report, a collaboration between IPEN and Biodiversity Research Institute (BRI), highlights the urgent need for an overall reduction in mercury emissions when government...