BOSTON, Mass. — February 13, 2014 — A new Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection report is drawing a connection between a drop in mercury levels in fish and efforts to reduce mercury emissions from incinerators, power plants and other sources.
The report said that in a mercury ‘‘hotspot’’ near several solid waste incinerators, levels of the toxic heavy metal in largemouth bass and yellow perch dropped by more than 40 percent after local mercury emissions were cut by 98 percent.
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