DHEC’s most recent list of Top Mercury Polluters here in SC takes Santee Cooper’s ‘big polluter of the year’ award: their Winyah plant in Georgetown!

According to the EPA and the CDC, 1 in 6 – around 630,000 – American children are born with potentially unsafe levels of mercury in their blood every year.

Through Greenpeace, you can get tested for mercury today for only $25 – it may be a big eye-opener!

_{DHEC provided these figures in response to a request under the SC Freedom of Information Act from the Post & Courier. Emissions levels are estimates. Some locations were measured several years ago and may no long emit mercury emissions.}