NY State Assembly - Bill A03420
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.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A03420

NY State Assembly - Bill A07038
An act to amend the state finance law, the economic development law and the environmental conservation law, in relation to the state procurement process and to healthy and green procurement.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=A.7038

NY State Assembly - Bill A05343A
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=A05343

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_breast_cancer_news/730

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

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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