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Cement kilns are poisoning our air, water and food with mercury pollution. For more than a decade, the EPA has neglected this health threat. Now, new data from EPA itself show that the American public is paying a steep price. Mercury emissions from cement kilns are almost twice as high as the agency previously acknowledged, and are often among the worst mercury polluters.