Government Agencies Failed to Sound Warning on Lead. / Chris Carroll.
by Carroll, Chris; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 56Environment. Publisher: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2002ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): United States. Environmental Protection Agency | Air pollution | Hazardous wastes | Health risk assessment | Lead poisoning | Lead poisoning in children | Smelting | MissouriDDC classification: 050 Summary: "For 25 years, health officials from local, state and federal agencies--sometimes working directly with the Doe Run Co.--played down the health risks Herculaneum residents faced from the company's lead smelter operations." (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH) This article reveals that for years health officials failed to warn the Herculaneum residents about the dangers of lead poisoning.
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Originally Published: Government Agencies Failed to Sound Warning on Lead, July 7, 2002; pp. A1+.
"For 25 years, health officials from local, state and federal agencies--sometimes working directly with the Doe Run Co.--played down the health risks Herculaneum residents faced from the company's lead smelter operations." (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH) This article reveals that for years health officials failed to warn the Herculaneum residents about the dangers of lead poisoning.
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