How to Stop Mercury Polluters
The story of one scientist’s quest to save the birds he loves
16 min readJun 22, 2021
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It was just another sweltering summer afternoon gathering blood samples from Shenandoah Valley birds when the news came in. The ornithologist Dan Cristolhad been conducting a preliminary assessment funded by DuPont to determine to what degree the company’s pollution of the watershed might have affected the…