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An exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes regions was supposed to be released last July, but the Bush administration has kept it under wraps--reportedly because it contained such potentially "alarming information" as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.
The Center for Public Integrity 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 being exposed to dioxin, PCBs, pesticides, lead, mercury, or six other hazardous pollutants
This audio report features the first interview about the study with Christopher de Rosa, who was responsible for the study at the CDC and who fought to have it published.
The study examines areas of concern in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
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An exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes regions was supposed to be released last July, but the Bush administration has kept it under wraps--reportedly because it contained such potentially "alarming information" as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates. The Center for Public Integrity 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 being exposed to dioxin, PCBs, pesticides, lead, mercury, or six other hazardous pollutants This audio report features the first interview about the study with Christopher de Rosa, who was responsible for the study at the CDC and who fought to have it published. The study examines areas of concern in Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
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