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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Mercury</title>
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  <updated>2008-10-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
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  <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007:/issue_feed/6449</id>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: S.906 Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-13:/action/176914</id>
    <updated>2008-10-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to prohibit the sale, distribution, transfer, and export of elemental mercury, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 13, 2008: Signed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: S.906 Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s906/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-13:/action/176915</id>
    <updated>2008-10-13T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to prohibit the sale, distribution, transfer, and export of elemental mercury, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 13, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-414.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: S.906 Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-02:/action/176654</id>
    <updated>2008-10-02T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to prohibit the sale, distribution, transfer, and export of elemental mercury, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October 02, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: S.906 Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s906/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-28:/action/175853</id>
    <updated>2008-09-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to prohibit the sale, distribution, transfer, and export of elemental mercury, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 28, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3036 Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s3036/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-19:/action/158250</id>
    <updated>2008-05-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2754 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of refined coal.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2754/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-12:/action/147516</id>
    <updated>2008-03-12T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the definition of refined coal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5616 Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5616/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-12:/action/147961</id>
    <updated>2008-03-12T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for the repeal of the phase out of incandescent light bulbs unless the Comptroller General makes certain specific findings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5580 Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5580/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-10:/action/147196</id>
    <updated>2008-03-10T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to phase out the use of mercury in the manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2643 Mercury Emissions Control Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2643/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-13:/action/145822</id>
    <updated>2008-02-13T19:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate regulations to control hazardous air pollutant emissions from electric utility steam generating units.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5232 To provide that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings shall require a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or utilize such energy efficient lighting if the lighting contains mercury.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h5232/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-02-05:/action/144631</id>
    <updated>2008-02-05T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings shall require a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or utilize such energy efficient lighting if the lighting contains mercury.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4612 Climate Neutral Electricity Generation Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h4612/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-12-12:/action/140171</id>
    <updated>2007-12-12T19:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide an investment credit for electric generation facilities with climate neutral combustion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.Con.Res.252 Expressing the sense of Congress that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings should require a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or utilize such energy efficient lighting if the lighting contains mercury.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-hc252/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-11-08:/action/136401</id>
    <updated>2007-11-08T19:00:00Z</updated>
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Expressing the sense of Congress that no Federal or State requirement to increase energy efficient lighting in public buildings should require a hospital, school, day care center, mental health facility, or nursing home to install or utilize such energy efficient lighting if the lighting contains mercury.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3989 Healthy Air and Clean Water Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3989/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-28:/action/135091</id>
    <updated>2007-10-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Clean Air Act to reduce mercury, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxide emissions, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2191 America's Climate Security Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s2191/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-10-17:/action/132845</id>
    <updated>2007-10-17T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to direct the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to decrease emissions of greenhouse gases, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.3236 Sustainable Energy Institutional Infrastructure Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h3236/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-07-30:/action/127186</id>
    <updated>2007-07-30T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To promote greater energy efficiency.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1818 Missing Mercury in Manufacturing Monitoring and Mitigation Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1818/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-07-18:/action/123261</id>
    <updated>2007-07-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act to phase out the use of mercury in the manufacture of chlorine and caustic soda, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2906 10th Congressional District of Illinois School Conservation Corps Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2906/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-27:/action/120425</id>
    <updated>2007-06-27T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To establish a pilot program under which the Secretary of Education makes grants to establish and support the 10th Congressional District of Illinois School Conservation Corps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2813 Children's Mercury Exposure Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2813/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-20:/action/119378</id>
    <updated>2007-06-20T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To address the risks of exposure of children to mercury from mercury-contaminated industrial sites.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1554 Clean Power Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1554/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-05:/action/117375</id>
    <updated>2007-06-05T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to comprehensively address challenges relating to energy independence, air pollution, and climate change facing the United States.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2537 Beach Protection Act of 2008</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2537/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-23:/action/114013</id>
    <updated>2007-05-23T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act relating to beach monitoring, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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