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Hidden Costs: Reduced IQ from Chlor-Alkali Plant Mercury Emissions Harms the Economy

May, 2009

“Hidden Costs” is the first attempt to place a dollar value on the public health and economic costs of this industry's contribution to mercury pollution. The report shows how lowered IQ due to mercury pollution from outdated mercury-cell chlorine factories has cost the American economy millions of dollars in lost wages annually.