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Mold: A Public Health Threat
Indoor mold can cause serious health problems. CHEJ’s fact pack provides information on the causes of mold, potential health effects, recommended steps for addressing mold problems, and additional resources. Our fact pack covers mold in homes and schools and includes news and journal articles, as well as materials from government agencies, cooperative extension programs, and websites.
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Mold--Homes
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Mold--Schools
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Community Health Surveys
You think there is an increase of health problems in your community and now you want to do a survey? Beware! If the survey is not done correctly it can hurt your chances of winning your fight. This guidebook walks you through various ways to conduct health surveys and describes how to avoid pitfalls. Included are two model questionnaires.
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Common Questions About Health Effects
This is an essential primer for grassroots leaders to use to educate themselves and their neighbors. This guide describes how chemicals get into the body and how they can adversely affect human health.
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Cancer Clusters
Cancer clusters are one of the most frightening problems a community can face. Our fact pack provides numerous examples of cancer clusters and what communities have done to get answers to their questions.
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Asthma: Breathtaking Facts
Asthma rates are increasing, especially among children and African Americans. This collection of articles, news clips, and scientific papers addresses the environmental causes of asthma and what can be done to help prevent attacks. This newly revised fact pack includes a list of useful websites where more information about asthma can be obtained.
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A Parent’s Guide: Reducing Children’s Environmental Health Risks
A must read for all parents, this booklet explains how chemical contamination travels through air, water and soils to threaten the health, and even the lives, of children. It includes action steps families can take - both individually and collectively with other parents - to reduce or avoid exposures to pesticides, dioxin and other widely prevalent chemicals. Call CHEJ for discounts on multiple copies for distribution to PTA’s, churches or others.
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Brownfields
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Superfund
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MTBE: The Dangerous Gasoline Additive
Recent scientific reports cast doubt on the safety of using MTBE as a gas additive. This fact pack provides the most up-to-date articles and studies on this additive.
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Indoor Air Pollution
This fact pack details the sources of and problems associated with indoor air pollution, as well as solutions for providing cleaner air inside your home.
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Creating Safe Learning Zones: The ABC’s of Healthy Schools
Creating Safe Learning Zones: The ABC's of Healthy Schools is a comprehensive primer of children's special vulnerabilities and the toxic threats to their health in the school environment. The report examines toxins commonly found in schools and building materials and provides action steps school communities can take to reduce toxic chemical exposures and switch to safer alternatives. The report contains detailed descriptions of how to design a healthy school and how to get your community involved in the decision making process, as highlighted in over a dozen case studies. (58 pages)
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Poisoned Schools: Invisible Threats, Visible Actions
The first publication of the Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign and the first installment in a series of reports addressing potential environmental health threats in schools, Poisoned Schools: Invisible Threats, Visible Actions identifies factors that pose risks to children's environmental health in schools. These risks include the deteriorating condition of school buildings, the trend of proposing new schools on contaminated land, the lack of school siting guidelines to ensure site safety, and the use of toxic pesticides on school grounds. The report offers specific recommendations to protect children from chemical contamination in air and soil surrounding schools and exposure from toxic pesticides on school grounds. Featured in the report are case studies, recommendations for school site selection and for developing integrated pest management programs, sample school siting and pest management surveys, and resources for reducing chemical exposures in the school environment. (79 pages)
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Creating Safe Learning Zones: Invisible Threats, Visible Actions
The follow-up publication to Poisoned Schools: Invisible Threats, Visible Actions, and the second installment in a series of reports addressing potential environmental health threats in schools, Creating Safe Learning Zones: Invisible Threats, Visible Actions focuses on the need for protective laws concerning the site selection and construction of new school buildings. The report presents data from five states (California, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, and New York) on the number of schools located on or near hazardous chemical waste sites or other contaminated sites, such as landfills, waste treatment plants, military sites, and others that may pose environmental and health risks. This guide describes children's special vulnerabilities, the school siting process, and examples of schools built on or near contaminated land. It provides model school siting legislation to help local communities promote local and state laws and policies that protect children's health and outlines action steps that parents can take to ensure that their children are not placed in harm's way. (34 pages)
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Building Safe Schools: Invisible Threats, Visible Actions
The third installment in a series of reports addressing potential environmental health threats in schools, and the update to Creating Safe Learning Zones: Invisible Threats, Visible Actions, this report provides a state-by-state summary and analysis of rules and regulations that apply to school siting decisions, further refines 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, and provides guidance to evaluate and remediate contaminated land to the most protective standards possible. Also included are several case studies highlighting school siting disasters and triumphs. (46 pages)
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25th Anniversary of Superfund, America's Safety Net in Crisis
This text is a 10-page narrative on the history of Superfund, the financial foundation of the program, and the current funding shortfall. Additionally, the report includes a profile of a Superfund site in every state in the US and Puerto Rico. Lastly, the report includes a U.S. PIRG State-by-State Taxpayer Impact Chart and a State-by-State List of all Superfund sites from 1980 to 2005.
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