AP IMPACT: Gov’t stands by as mercury taints water (AP)

AP - Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California’s rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state’s major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people.

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