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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<description><![CDATA[In case this wasn&#8217;t obvious enough already:&nbsp; mercury pollution is really bad for kids&#8217; brains. And what&#8217;s bad for brains is bad for the economy.&nbsp; The IQ losses caused by mercury pollution sap roughly $8.7 billion from the economy each year; and $1.3 billion of that can be attributed to mercury emitted by coal-fired power plants.&nbsp; (See here and here, big pdf, for more.)]]></description>
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