AugustaChronicle.com article - Mercury cleanup bill gets new life

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Mercury cleanup bill gets new life

Two years ago, a little known Illinois senator introduced legislation to compel

chlorine factories using mercury cell technology to convert to cleaner processes

-- or shut down by 2012.

The bill, which would have affected Olin Corp.'s Augusta plant and three others

in the U.S., was screened by a Republican administration favorable to big

business -- and never passed.

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http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/12/22/met_504957.shtml

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