September 29, 2008 -- WASHINGTON,
D.C. - U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-IL) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK),
Representative Tom Allen (D-ME), and Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) today announced that Congress passed the
Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 (S.906), a bill introduced in March 2007 to ban
the export of mercury from the United States. » read more »