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Mercury Ban

The town council in Freeport, Maine has voted to ban the sale of mercury thermometers, after finding a high rate of mercury contamination in its rain samples. The amount of mercury in a single thermometer is about a gram, enough to pollute an average size lake. Noah talks with David Soley, Town Councilor for Freeport, Maine.

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