Variety Magazine has reported that Jeremy Piven will abruptly end his run in Broadway’s “Speed-the-Plow,” after missing Tuesday evening’s performance and a Wednesday matinee due to mercury poisoning from eating…
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Following reports of Broadway Actor Jeremy Priven’s mercury poisioning from eating too much sushi, NBC science correspondent Robert Bazell covered the story for the network’s news. See the video on…
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 Today, the Mercury Policy Project released an expanded case study based on reports of doctors diagnosing patients with mercury toxicity. The report documents illness from 23 people…
SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Commerce Department announced today that it is considering banning the imports of foreign swordfish until exporting countries can provide proof that their fishing practices are…
Washington, DC – Twenty-one of California’s Congressional Representatives have signed a Dear Colleague letter co-authored by Representative Sam Farr (CA-17) and Lynn Woolsey (CA-6) opposing the Federal proposals to permit…
Leaked FDA documents reveal last-ditch effort to put tuna and swordfish profits first Mothers and children would be encouraged to eat unsafe levels of toxic tuna and swordfish and never…
The Japan Times reported that people now in their 50s who were exposed to mercury poisoning pre-natally have suffered health problems all their lives. The exposure came from their mothers,…
Endangered Leatherback Sea Turtles Now Leaving West Coast Will Encounter 5 Million More Hooks on Return if Longline Expansions OK’d New Report “Death by A Thousand Hooks” Documents the Demise…
The world’s oldest fossil of a turtle discovered off the coast of China last year turns out to be… a sea turtle! The fossil, thought to be 220 million years…
After more than an hour of testimony, on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) unanimously adopted a resolution forwarded by Sea Turtle Restoration Project that opposed the opening of a new longline fishery for swordfish along the California coast