Sentences with phrase «mean less mercury»
«Global reductions would mean less mercury in fish, lakes and people,» Hurley said.
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The small size of the sardine means that it has less opportunity to pick up and accumulate mercury.
This means that they contain much less mercury and other heavy metals than larger fish such as tuna.
Replacing those by LEDs means that the displays will use less energy, will probably have a longer useful life (LEDs last a very long time), will be mercury - free and more recyclable.
Even with the logic in driving efficiency, doesn't it still make sense to have an «all of the above» plan in shifting to less - polluting energy options, given how a shift from coal to natural gas — while not perfect by any means — also syncs with environmental goals related to other pollutants (mercury, etc.)?
This is less than 1 percent as much mercury as found in old thermometers, but it still means broken bulbs should be treated with care and discarded bulbs should be recycled instead of thrown out.
The utility mercury rule Holmstead favored and admitted to initiating was a less stringent (in fact, illegal) cap and trade method under a different section of the Clean Air Act (subsection 111 instead of 112), which meant downgrading EPA's opinion of mercury's danger as a toxin.
And it means that that idea of using activated carbon to scrub mercury from «clean coal» technology produced gases will become increasingly less cost effective as the Appalachian sources dry up.