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		<title>Paging Lisa Jackson (and the rest of the EPA)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still can’t believe it. This week, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson delivered a gift to Dow Chemical and the rest of the  chemical industry. I bet you&#8217;re wondering.  What’d she do?  Nothing. You see, that’s the problem. For twenty seven years, we’ve been waiting for the release of the EPA’s report on the health hazards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest editorial: Our community owes a debt to Center for Health, Environment and Justice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chejadmin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osseo, Mich. — Years ago, Gov. Blanchard decided that Hillsdale County would be the site of a high-level nuclear waste dump for seven states. It should be noted that, at that time, some of the so-called “low-level” nuclear wastes were still dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. Despite the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC’s) studies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Health Leaders Blast EPA for Failing to Release Dioxin Health Report</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/02/environmental-health-leaders-blast-epa-for-failing-to-release-dioxin-health-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once Again American Public Denied Right to Know and Ability to Protect Families from Unnecessary Exposure Advocates Urge EPA to Immediately Release Dioxin Health Report, Decry 27 Years of Delays Due to Chemical Industry Interference (Falls Church, VA) For twenty seven years, the American public has been kept in the dark about the health impacts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago, We have a Problem! Another School Siting Gone Bad</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/01/chicago-we-have-a-problem-another-school-siting-gone-bad/</link>
		<comments>http://chej.org/2012/01/chicago-we-have-a-problem-another-school-siting-gone-bad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makia</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chej.org/?p=6950</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since 2000, CHEJ’s Childproofing Our Communities (CPOC) campaign has been working on environmental school based issues and specifically school siting. What is school siting? School Siting is the process of where to locate a school facility. For decades this has been a contentious problem for decision makers because often where to place a school can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHEJ Helps on Leroy Students Mystery Illness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chejadmin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National environmental and health groups are beating a path to LeRoy, poking into the Genesee County community&#8217;s startling cluster of teenage students with troubling neurological symptoms. Groups led by environmental-activist icons Erin Brockovich and Lois Gibbs have been talking with parents and gathering background. A chapter of the Sierra Club has been digging into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental and Health Groups Call on EPA to Finalize Study on One of the Most Toxic Chemicals on the Planet</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/01/environmental-and-health-groups-call-on-epa-to-finalize-study-on-one-of-the-most-toxic-chemicals-on-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Schade</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chej.org/?p=6893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chemical Industry Stall Tactics Have Delayed Release of Study for 27 Years,  Groups Say (Falls Church, VA) Pressure is escalating on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to make good on the EPA’s promise to finalize their 27 yearlong-delayed study on dioxin by the end of this January.  Today a broad coalition of environmental health, environmental justice, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fracking Ohio Health Hazard</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/01/fracking-ohio-health-hazard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Rabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three years after drilling, a federal health agency has found that natural gas in Ohio&#8217;s Medina County well water is potentially explosive, according to the Beacon Journal.  The agency says potentially explosive levels of natural gas at two houses in Medina County are a public health threat. The problems in the two drinking water wells appear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sundance Diary: &#8220;A Fierce Green Fire&#8221; Spotlights Ass-Kicking Enviros</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/01/sundance-diary-a-fierce-green-fire-spotlights-ass-kicking-enviros/</link>
		<comments>http://chej.org/2012/01/sundance-diary-a-fierce-green-fire-spotlights-ass-kicking-enviros/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chejadmin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chej.org/?p=6883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For an environmental documentary junkie like me, Monday night at Sundance was a little slice of heaven: After catching the world premiere of Mark Kitchell’s A Fierce Green Fire, I sprinted across town to see The Atomic States of America, a powerful film about nuclear energy that draws from Kelly McMasters‘ memoir, Welcome to Shirley. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reducing Dioxin Exposure</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/01/reducing-dioxin-exposure/</link>
		<comments>http://chej.org/2012/01/reducing-dioxin-exposure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the EPA’s self-imposed deadline at the end of January to complete the non cancer portion of the long awaited dioxin reassessment, there’s been a sudden rash of news stories about dioxin. One theme coming from the agriculture and food industry is that the diet of the American public will suffer because we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Notice: Center for Health, Environment &amp; Justice Director of Foundation Relations</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/01/job-notice-center-for-health-environment-justice-director-of-foundation-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://chej.org/2012/01/job-notice-center-for-health-environment-justice-director-of-foundation-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sfranklin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CENTER FOR HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND JUSTICE DIRECTOR OF FOUNDATION RELATIONS CHEJ mentors a movement, building healthier communities by empowering people to prevent harm caused by chemical and toxic threats. We do this by mentoring and assisting local activists and emerging group leaders, and providing them with training and technical information. We also work to build [...]]]></description>
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