The US Environmental Protection Agency said that it will propose new regulations to reduce the amount of mercury waste generated by dental offices beginning next year. The proposed law, which could be finalised by 2012, will reverse an EPA policy from the Bush administration that gave dentists voluntary guidelines to reduce mercury waste. The new rule will require dentists to install a device that allows the mercury from old fillings to be reused or recycled. According to Michael Bender, director of the Mercury Policy Project and a forerunner on the National Mercury Products Campaign, the proposal by the current EPA to end ... Full Story

