Example sentences for: mercury

How can you use “mercury” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • By 2007 reduce NOx emissions 75 percent below 1997 levels, reduce SO2 emissions to 75 percent below full implementation of the Phase II requirements under title IV, reduce mercury emissions 90 percent below 1999 levels, and reduce CO2 emissions to 1990 levels.

  • After mercury is emitted to the air, it can be transported through the atmosphere for days to years before being deposited into water bodies.

  • The health and environmental effects of mercury exposure are also not quantified.

  • This "bottom-up" approach provides a more accurate representation of regional benefits estimates than a comparable "top-down", emissions-weighted approach might, particularly given the importance of long-range transport for the major pollutants controlled by the Clear Skies Act (SO2 and NOx, as well as mercury).

  • The Administrator must make any recommendations to Congress no later than July 1, 2009 and may submit separate recommendations addressing sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, or mercury at any time after the study and the peer review have been completed.


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