ADVISORY/Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Leads Environmental Call to Action for the Hudson River.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday (June 26) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Newly Released Study Details Hazardous Human Health Consequences of Elevated PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. Levels Along the Hudson River Hudson River River, New York, U.S. Originating in the Adirondack Mountains and flowing for about 315 mi (507 km) to New York City, it was named for Henry Hudson, who explored it in 1609. Dutch settlement of the Hudson valley began in 1629. Riverkeeper and a Coalition of Environmental Organizations Speak Out Against the Continuing Ecological and Human Health Harms Resulting from General Electric's PCB contamination of the Hudson River
WHAT: Leading health experts discuss the ramifications of exposure
of PCB exposure in humans and unborn children
A call to action to rally behind EPA's pending decision to
dredge PCBs from the Hudson River
WHO: Riverkeeper and Friends of a Clean Hudson, a coalition of
National State and Regional Environmental Organizations
WHEN: Tuesday, June 26, 2001
10:00am - 11:00am
WHERE: Battery Square Park, Lower Manhattan (Battery Place and West
Street, behind Castle Clinton)
Rain location: American restaurant
Speakers include: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chief Prosecuting Attorney, Riverkeeper Elliott Spitzer, Attorney General, State of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc., Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine is a medical school found in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Sandra Steingraber Sandra Steingraber (b. 1959) is an American biologist and author in the tradition of Rachel Carson. Steingraber writes and lectures on the environmental factors that contribute to reproductive health problems and cancer. , M.D., Author of Living Downstream and Having Faith RSVP: Mary Beth Postman, 914-422-4343 Day of event: Laura Barrett 646-594-4619 Copy of medical study and images are available |
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