This toolkit is to provide communities with the tools necessary for protecting their children’s health by organizing for the passage of safe school siting policies. This toolkit is based on the lessons we have learned over the past 28 years of working with communities to fight back polluting facilities, build relationships with elected officials, and run successful local, regional, and national campaigns to end toxic chemical exposure.
This Technical Support Document (TSD) is the third and final section of America's Choice: Children's Health or Corporate Profit - The American People's Dioxin Report (1999). This Technical Support Document provides the scientific basis and support for the conclusions and recommendations made in the previous report. This document describes where dioxin comes from, how it moves through the environment and gets into our food, how it builds up in our bodies, and how it is affects our health and our children. Particular emphasis is given to how dioxin affects the immune, reproductive, and developmental systems of the human body and how it causes cancer. This Technical Support Document provides the reader with a scientific discussion and analysis of the latest research on dioxin, including extensive references and an overall characterization of the risk of dioxin to public health.
This report is the third report in the "Invisible Threats, Visible Actions" series. CHEJ and CPOC updated Creating Safe Learning Zones for this report to include a state-by-state analysis and summary of rules and regulations that apply to school siting decisions. We also further refined the model school siting guidelines to include guidance for school districts that have no available options other than to build a school on a highly contaminated site. We also provide guidance to evaluate and remediate contaminated land to the most protective standards possible.
This report is a joint effort of member organizations of the Child Proofing Our Communities campaign’s Healthy Buildings Committee. Child Proofing Our Communities is a locally-based, nationally-connected campaign formed to protect children from exposures to environmental health hazards in or near public schools.
This report is a joint effort of member organizations of the Child Proofing Our Communities: Poisoned School Campaign, a locally based, nationally connected campaign to protect children from exposure to environmental health hazards in our schools, homes, and communities.
This booklet is to help parents understand the depth of the environmental and health risks upon children and to suggest some concrete steps we can take to protect our children from such harm.
