John-Paul Flintoff is the Environment writer for the Sunday Times, a UK Murdoch paper. On Sunday he wrote an article Poisoning ourselves to save the planet about the dangers of mercury from compact fluorescents. He starts off with a description of mercury poisoning from a nameless “informant” who worked for years in heavy industry.

“Their teeth fell out first, then they got the shakes and malaria-type symptoms.” There is no question that mercury poisoning is a serious problem, but this describes Minimata disease, or Mad Hatter syndrome,… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Environmental Reporter from UK Sunday Times on CFLs: RUN!