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"Startling new research shows that one out of every six women of childbearing age in the United States may have blood mercury concentrations high enough to damage a developing fetus," states an EPI report by [[Janet Larsen]]. "This means that 630,000 of the 4 million babies born in the country each year are at risk of neurological damage because of exposure to dangerous mercury levels in the womb." To read the rest of this article and to view a supporting dataset<ref>Janet Larsen, please visit Earth Policy Institute at "[http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/Update42.htmCOAL TAKES HEAVY HUMAN TOLL: Some 25,100 U.S. Deaths from Coal Use Largely Preventable]," Earth Policy Institute, August 24, 2004.</ref>