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Government report deemed too hot for the public to handle
WASHINGTON, D.C. February 7, 2008 – For more than seven months, the federal government has blocked the publication of the 400-plus-page study, Public Health Implications of Hazardous Substances in the Twenty-Six U.S. Great Lakes Areas of Concern, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates in the eight Great Lakes states. The Center has obtained the study, which warns that more than nine million people who live in the more than two dozen “areas of concern” — including such major metropolitan areas as Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee — may face elevated health risks from exposure to dioxin, PCBs, pesticides, lead, mercury, or six other hazardous pollutants.
Read the full story or go to http://www.publicintegrity.org/GreatLakes/index.htm.
Government report deemed too hot for the public to handle
WASHINGTON, D.C. February 7, 2008 – For more than seven months, the federal government has blocked the publication of the 400-plus-page study, Public Health Implications of Hazardous Substances in the Twenty-Six U.S. Great Lakes Areas of Concern, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information” as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates in the eight Great Lakes states. The Center has obtained the study, which warns that more than nine million people who live in the more than two dozen “areas of concern” — including such major metropolitan areas as Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, and Milwaukee — may face elevated health risks from exposure to dioxin, PCBs, pesticides, lead, mercury, or six other hazardous pollutants.
Read the full story or go to http://www.publicintegrity.org/GreatLakes/index.htm.