House Resources Committee Chairman Richard W. Pombo (R-CA) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Chairman Jim Gibbons (R-NV) issued earlier this year a detailed report on the science of mercury and the environment, Mercury in Perspective: Fact and Fiction About the Debate Over Mercury. The paper is a comprehensive synopsis of the peer-reviewed research regarding the debate over regulating mercury.
In the interest of debunking the junk science that pervades media coverage of mercury issues, The Heartland Institute has reprinted the Pombo-Gibbons report in a series of three articles in its monthly public policy newspaper, Environment & Climate News.
Links to each article in the series appear below.
Additional research and commentary on mercury is available through PolicyBot™, The Heartland Institute’s free online research database. Point your Web browser to http://www.heartland.org, click on the PolicyBot™ button, and choose the topic/subtopic combination Environment/Mercury.
Executive Summary of Pombo/Gibbons Mercury Report
October 2005
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17781
Part 1: House Committee Leaders Issue Mercury Report
October 2005
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17780
Part 2: Pombo, Gibbons Document Declining Mercury Exposure
November 2005
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17974
Part 3: Report: Mercury Scare Campaigns Unfounded
December 2005
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=18136
Other recent articles in Environment & Climate News on mercury:
U.S. Senate Squelches Mercury Panic
November 2005
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=17968
Ignoring Science, San Francisco Considers Mercury Warning
December 2005
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=18128
Mercury in Fish Not Dangerous, Study Shows
December 2005
http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=18129
The Heartland Institute is a 21-year-old national nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization. For more information about Heartland’s work, visit its Web site at http://www.heartland.org or contact Ralph Conner, public affairs director, at 312/377-4000, email [email protected].
Diane Carol Bast is a former member of The Heartland Institute’s board of directors.
