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The Executive Body adopted the Protocol on Heavy Metals on 24 June 1998 in Aarhus (Denmark). It targets three particularly harmful metals: cadmium, lead and mercury. According to one of the basic obligations, Parties will have to reduce their emissions for these three metals below their levels in 1990 (or an alternative year between 1985 and 1995).
US lawmakers plan to introduce a bill Thursday that aims to limit the amount of heavy metals found in baby food through stronger regulation and enforcement by the US Food and Drug Administration.
The Protocol on Heavy Metals, a protocol to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, was adopted in Aarhus, Denmark, in 1998. As of 2004, it had 36 signatories. [ 1 ] As of 2016, it had 35 signatories and 33 parties, with no country having become a signatory since 1998. [ 2 ]
Recent examples of heavy metal contamination and health risks include the occurrence of Minamata disease, in Japan (1932–1968; lawsuits ongoing as of 2016); [86] the Bento Rodrigues dam disaster in Brazil, [87] high levels of lead in drinking water supplied to the residents of Flint, Michigan, in the north-east of the United States [88] and ...
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The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose restrictions on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable.
The United States is not a party to the Basel Convention, a 1992 treaty which prohibits the export of hazardous waste from developed countries to developing countries. [7] [8] Research by the Guardian and Quinto Elemento Lab shows that US companies ship more than a million tons of hazardous waste to other countries each year. [9]
Scientists have linked a lithium battery plant fire in California earlier this month to a surge in heavy metals found in nearby soil. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 ...