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NY State Assembly - Bill A07256
Enacts the "New York state public health protection act"; establishes a precautionary policy for the state; establishes criteria to guide implementation of the precautionary policy; creates a precautionary policy planning council.
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NY State Assembly - Bill A07257
Provides guidelines for state agencies to implement safe and sustainable procurement practices for services and commodities purchased by such state agencies; requires consideration of the protection of public health and the environment as part of the normal state procurement practice.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A07257

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NY State Assembly - Bill A00969
Provides for the development of an environmental health tracking system within the department of health with cooperation from the departments of environmental conservation and labor; provides that the purpose is to gather various environmental data to correlate with disease data; requires the cooperation of the state university of New York school of public health at Albany and Buffalo.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A00969

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Collaborative on Health and the Environment
2006 Consensus Statement on Breast Cancer and the Environment The following statement was written by health advocates to help change the paradigm of public health to include the environment as a source of disease.
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/wg_cancer_news/482

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XRAYS - The Patients' Right to Know Policy Statement
Support the Patients' Right to Know
The Xray Statement

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Power Plants' Mercury Pollution:  Jeopardizing the Health and Future of our Children and Ecosystems
MERCURY IMPAIRS CHILDREN'S ABILITY TO WALK, TALK AND LEARN.
Mercury, a highly toxic heavy metal, affects the central nervous system a lot like lead does. Even low levels of mercury exposure in utero or during early childhood can cause poor attention span and language development, impaired memory and vision, difficulty processing information, and/or impaired fine motor coordination.
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