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Is Slate Incompetent, Who's the Editor?
You've done a great injustice here, and haven't researched your topic. Granted, there is a slight amount of mercury in CFL's. However, as most of the U.S.'s electricity comes from coal (the largest emitter of mercury in the world), in the end, using CFL's lowers the amount of mercury released. That's even if all of them are dumped in the public ...
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hoffboom
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February 2, 2008