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Medical and public health groups sue EPA to prevent future mercury exposure

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 10th, 2005

Four leading medical, nursing and public health groups, representing more than 300,000 public health professionals, have filed a challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) power plant mercury rule.

The plaintiffs include Physicians for Social Responsibility, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Nurses Association and the American Public Health Association, all based in Washington, DC.

The medical and health groups are filing a motion for intervention into the mercury litigation initiated by environmental organizations and 13 state attorneys general. The groups are filing this historic new lawsuit in response to the...

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