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Schools: Protecting Kids from Dangerous Chemicals
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go to great lengths to ensure the health and safety
of our children. We demand that our schools adopt
“zero tolerance” policies toward drugs,
guns, and other hazards to our children. Shouldn’t
we be taking similar precautions with dangerous
chemicals and other toxins that endanger our children
while they are at school?
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Schools: Safe Health Standards for Children
- When
we give our children an aspirin, we’re always
careful not to give them an “adult dose.”
Why? Because we know a child’s body simply
can’t handle the same things as ours. Yet,
when most air and water regulations were created,
they gave our children “adult doses”
of toxins, by setting standards on cancer and acute
health risks to that of a 160-pound, male adult.
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Schools: School Bus Diesel Emissions
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99% of our nation’s 600,000 school buses run on
diesel fuel, placing millions of children at risk
each day from the hazardous health effects of diesel
emissions.
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Schools: Toxic Building Sites
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districts chronically lack resources required to
meet renovation and construction needs. Often pressure
to reduce expenses and expedite the process encourages
shortcuts. As a result, far too many schools are
located on cheap land near or on contaminated property.
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- Mercury
Reduction
- Thousands
of Americans unnecessarily expose themselves and
others to mercury.
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SERC project has been discontinued due to lack of funding.
We apologize, but it’s unlikely that we’ll be
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Environmental Resource Center
Madison, Wisconsin |
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