Reader PM writes in to let us know that the media’s missing a big story: mercury contamination from mercury meters in oil and gas fields across Louisiana (and probably other states with such fields).

Here’s more on mercury meters. Here’s a story from last year on the danger.

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Anybody out there got any insight on this?

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