date:May 16, 2013
U.S. senator, Obama worked to prevent the release of surplus U.S. mercury into global commerce.
He introduced a bill with Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski to prohibit the transfer of elemental mercury by federal agencies and to ban U.S. exports of mercury by 2013. The Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 was signed into law by President George W. Bush.
The National Fisheries Institute, which represents seafood producers, wholesalers, retailers and trade groups, did not immediately respond to teleph