The Environmental Protection Agency is banning exports of five mercury compounds effective Jan. 1, 2020
The five compounds, listed in an EPA notice to be published in the Aug. 26 Federal Register, are mercury (I) chloride, also known as calomel; mercury (II) oxide; mercury (II) sulfate; mercury (II) nitrate; and cinnabar, also known as mercury sulphide.
Mercury (I) chloride, produced in volumes of about 25 metric tons annually, was the highest volume mercury compound generated in the U.S., the EPA told Congress in a 2009 report.
This particular mercury compound is a common product in wastes generated from air ...
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