About Bryan NelsonBryan Nelson has been making up for lost time since finishing his graduate degree in Philosophy by traveling and working to change the world. He has worked with groups like The Sierra Club, Environment America & U.S. PIRG, Environment Oregon & OSPIRG, and Progressive Future on local and national political campaigns. His environmental journalism can be found throughout the web, which also includes regular contributions to MNN.com. Between adventure and activism, he currently can be found doing freelance writing from his home in Portland, Oregon.
As a “Pinkie” [Pink Disease sufferer] who was given teething powders with thermisol in them in the early 1950′s, I’m not surprised by this article.
The Australian government and local authorities don’t listen to our calls for CFL bulbs and the like to be scrapped. New Zealand have repealed their call to replace Incandescent bulbs with CFL bulbs and it is about time that the Rudd government listened to reason.
We can’t even get an exemption from using CFL bulbs and a means to purchase Incandescent bulbs for our use.