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[url "http://www.spinalcolumnonline.com/Articles-i-2008-02-13-54720.113117_DEQ_maps_out_goals_strategy_for_reducing_mercury_contamination.html"]DEQ maps out goals, strategy for reducing mercury contamination[/url]
A growing concern across the state, as well as the country, has resulted in redoubled efforts to address the existence of mercury in Michigan's varied environments and habitats. Jumping off over a year ago, the latest in a series of actions made by the state's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is the early January release of a Mercury Strategy Staff Report intended to serve as an update on where the state is at in attending to Mercury concerns and where the environmental department will go from here.[url "http://www.spinalcolumnonline.com/Articles-i-2008-02-13-54720.113117_DEQ_maps_out_goals_strategy_for_reducing_mercury_contamination.html"]| more >>|[/url]
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