Temat: What You Need to Know about PCBs/Mercury in Fish & Shell
...answered because no one has tested stationary creatures living in sediments around a rig or methylmercury, the form that bioaccumulates in animals.
The existing MMS fish and shrimp mercury tissue data, far from giving the rigs a clean bill of health, have led many federal scientists and mercury experts to suggest that mercury at the rigs may indeed be contaminating Gulf fish.
13. Assertion: In a letter to Sen. Shelby, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency director Christine Todd Whitman wrote that her agency's Gulf Ecology Division lab had conducted studies in the 1980s proving that mercury dumped around oil and gas rigs in the Gulf of Mexico was not contaminating Gulf fish.
Register findings: The EPA has since admitted none of the three studies referred to in Whitman's letter were conducted by the EPA lab or even by EPA scientists. The EPA scientist who provided the studies for Whitman's letter told the Register he is...
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