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		<title>Lead More Toxic To Kids</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/05/lead-more-toxic-to-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 18:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anne Rabe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lead is more toxic to children than previously believed and the federal government has once again lowered the blood level of concern threshold.  The federal Center for Disease Control recently reduced the &#8220;action level&#8221; from 10 micrograms per deciliter to 5 micrograms per deciliter.  The agency stated that this new action level means that &#8220;children [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burn Baby Burn</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/05/burn-baby-burn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Chicago Tribune ran a series of articles that uncovered a devious relationship between the tobacco and chemical industries. It’s hard not to be outraged &#8211; no matter how cynical you might be &#8211; by the tactics used by the chemical companies that made flame retardant products to convince the American public that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalachian women put strip-mining on trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 15:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Teresa Mills</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. &#8212; It&#8217;s been almost 35 years since Lois Gibbs became an environmental activist after she discovered her 7-year-old son&#8217;s elementary school in Niagara Falls, N.Y., was built on a toxic waste dump. This week, Gibbs was in West Virginia to hear the stories of women whose families live near mountaintop removal coal mining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cape Fear moms are fearless advocates for their children’s health</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/05/cape-fear-moms-are-fearless-advocates-for-their-children%e2%80%99s-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 21:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, mothers from Kansas and Texas visited our Cape Fear region to give a self-less and invaluable glimpse into what our future could look like. These moms raise children near coal-fired cement kilns, wake up from late-night rail cars carrying hazardous waste behind their homes, and have children attending toxic schools. These moms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newspapers Get Support In Fighting Fracking Secrecy</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/05/newspapers-get-support-in-fighting-fracking-secrecy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 18:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chej.org/?p=8309</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Observer-Reporter are seeking to overturn a court order sealing the record in a case in which a Pennsylvania family sued several gas companies over health impacts related to air and water pollution from nearby natural gas development operations. The companies are fighting to keep the records out of the public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fracking Rally in Washington, DC 7/28</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 02:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chej.org/?p=8304</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The “Stop the Frack Attack,” rally will bring thousands to the nation’s capitol to demand greater government responsibility and corporate accountability for harm that existing oil and gas development causes. This event will be the largest of its kind and will take place in on the West Lawn of the United States Capitol, Washington, DC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Designed to Fail – An inside Look at Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/05/designed-to-fail-%e2%80%93-an-inside-look-at-why-regulatory-agencies-don%e2%80%99t-work/</link>
		<comments>http://chej.org/2012/05/designed-to-fail-%e2%80%93-an-inside-look-at-why-regulatory-agencies-don%e2%80%99t-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 17:59:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Lester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often have you sat in a public meeting with a government representative at the front of the room responding to questions from the public with answers that make no sense? Maybe his answers are legally accurate (that is, they are doing what is required by law), but are they following the spirit of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism and Environmental Chemicals</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/04/autism-and-environmental-chemicals/</link>
		<comments>http://chej.org/2012/04/autism-and-environmental-chemicals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 02:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[back-to-school]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chej.org/?p=8278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[CHEJ has been talking about the dangers of PCB&#8217;s in school lighting fixtures and how the chemical can affect children&#8217;s health. Last month, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that autism spectrum disorder now affects 1 of every 88 American children &#8212; a 23% increase from 2006 and a 78% increase from 2002. CDC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHEJ’s Childproofing Our Communities (CPOC) campaign is now called the Children’s Environmental Health Program (CEHP).</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makia</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chej.org/?p=8235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW NAME.  SAME CRITICAL FOCUS. The founder and Executive Director of CHEJ, Lois Gibbs, was compelled to address children’s environmental health issues when in 1978 she discovered that her child’s school, her home and those of her neighbors were sitting on top of 20, 000 tons of toxic chemicals that was affecting the health of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A close call: Why the jury is still out on mobile phones</title>
		<link>http://chej.org/2012/04/a-close-call-why-the-jury-is-still-out-on-mobile-phones/</link>
		<comments>http://chej.org/2012/04/a-close-call-why-the-jury-is-still-out-on-mobile-phones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Makia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is a rise in brain tumours linked to the radiation sources we hold so close to our heads?Experts can’t agree on the answer. Allegations of lobbying, bad science, not enough science, conflicts of interest, political inertia, scaremongering and lawsuits: the debate surrounding the safety of mobile phones has it all. With more than 5 billion [...]]]></description>
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