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Alabama to help reduce cancer risks?
Posted Jun 25th 2007 4:33PM by Brian White
Filed under: All Cancers, Politics, Cancer prevention foods
With the connection between harmful chemicals and cancer causes having been made so strong in the last decade or so (and before that), do U.S. states -- in addition to federal regulations -- do enough to keep these substances out of reach of the everyday citizen?
In the state of Alabama, the discharge of certain chemicals directly into the environment that end up in the water supply gives people in that state the distinction of being diagnosed with cancer more often that other states.
But not every party is taking that kind of news sitting down, as 18 environmental and citizen organizations have formally petitioned Alabama's state environmental agency to seek a cancer risk level that should greatly increase the state of human health in that state.
Read more here -- and hope that your state has similar motions in place for the future or even right now.
Tags: Alabama, cancer prevention, CancerPrevention
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