For more than seven months, the nation’s top public health agency has blocked the publication of an exhaustive federal study of environmental hazards in the eight Great Lakes states, reportedly because it contains such potentially “alarming information†as evidence of elevated infant mortality and cancer rates.
lung cancer

Great Lakes...Er, Not So Great!
(via www.publicintegrity.org)
Submitted by jerryjamesstone on Thu, 2008-02-07 22:59. | Tags: nature | Breast Cancer | Cancer | colon cancer | dioxin | great lakes | infant health | lead | lung cancer | mercury | PCBs | pesticides | pollution