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		<title>Cancer Concerns in Stateline</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/07/27/cancer-concerns-in-stateline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[23 News Investigation: Cancer Concerns Parts I and II An unusual amount of Stateline teens have been diagnosed with cancer and now a Madison doctor is trying to find out why. Posted: 10:54 PM Jul 27, 2011 Reporter: Tina Stein WIFR 23 News PART 1 STATELINE, Wisc. (WIFR) &#8212; &#8220;That was furthest from my mind.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Residents share worries over cancer cluster fears</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/11/18/residents-share-worries-over-cancer-cluster-fears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 100 residents poured in to the McCullom Lake Village Hall this week after a crushing development in a court case that many had hoped would resolve once and for all whether a nearby chemical plant had polluted the water and air, causing dozens of their friends and neighbors to develop brain tumors. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge ends first McCullom Lake brain cancer trial</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/10/22/judge-ends-first-mccullom-lake-brain-cancer-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Neugebauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ringwood]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By KEVIN P. CRAVER – kcraver@nwherald.com A Philadelphia judge hearing the first McCullom Lake brain cancer lawsuit against Rohm and Haas abruptly ended the trial and dismissed the jury five weeks into the case. Judge Allan Tereshko late Thursday declared the trial over, an assistant to the judge confirmed Friday. The trial, which started Sept. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jury Selection Begins In McCullom Lake Cluster</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/09/14/jury-selection-begins-in-first-of-31-dowrohm-and-haas-brain-cancer-cluster-trials/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/09/14/jury-selection-begins-in-first-of-31-dowrohm-and-haas-brain-cancer-cluster-trials/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 13, 2010 Jury selection begins Wednesday, September 15 and opening arguments on September 20 in the first of 31 related brain cancer-cluster trials, in which Dow Chemical’s Rohm &#038; Haas subsidiary faces allegations that include wrongful death and negligence. Here is a summary of the case, believed to be the largest brain cancer cluster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Of 31 Suburban Chicago Brain Cancer-Cluster Trials Against Rohm And Haas About To Start In Philadelphia</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/09/12/first-of-31-suburban-chicago-brain-cancer-cluster-trials-against-rohm-and-haas-about-to-start-in-philadelphia/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/09/12/first-of-31-suburban-chicago-brain-cancer-cluster-trials-against-rohm-and-haas-about-to-start-in-philadelphia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 17:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aaron Freiwald]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA, PA (September 12, 2010) – Jury selection is scheduled to begin September 15 in the first of 31 brain cancer-cluster trials, in which Rohm and Haas Chemical Company is the defendant. And opening arguments are set to begin September 20 in what is believed to be the largest brain cancer cluster series of cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rohm and Haas to pay for testing</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/08/26/rohm-and-haas-to-pay-for-testing-2/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/08/26/rohm-and-haas-to-pay-for-testing-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By KEVIN P. CRAVER &#8211; kcraver@nwherald.com McCULLOM LAKE – Rohm and Haas is willing to pay for testing McCullom Lake’s air and groundwater for vinyl chloride contamination. The manager of the company’s Ringwood plant made the offer in response to a request from County Board Chairman Ken Koehler, R-Crystal Lake. The Aug. 19 letter from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP building gone, but its medical mystery remains</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/06/02/bp-building-gone-but-its-medical-mystery-remains/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/06/02/bp-building-gone-but-its-medical-mystery-remains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Demolition of Naperville research facility provides little solace to cancer victims&#8217; families June 02, 2010&#124; By Gerry Smith, Chicago Tribune reporter The former setting of a medical mystery is now a pile of rubble. But for Gayle Palmer, the final chapter has yet to be written. In recent weeks, BP demolished Building 503 of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Town Considers Best Use For Proceeds From $1.4 Million Cancer-Cluster Lawsuit Settlement</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/19/illinois-town-considers-best-use-for-proceeds-from-1-4-million-cancer-cluster-lawsuit-settlement/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/19/illinois-town-considers-best-use-for-proceeds-from-1-4-million-cancer-cluster-lawsuit-settlement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[McCullom Lake, Illinois – (April 19, 2010) This upstate village of slightly more than 1,000 residents will soon have a decision to make: how best to use hundreds of thousands of dollars that could be remaining at the end of the month in a cancer cluster, medical-monitoring settlement fund. Philadelphia attorney Aaron J. Freiwald, Esq., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crestwood residents still waiting for results of investigation of town&#8217;s cancer rates</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/12/30/crestwood-residents-still-waiting-for-results-of-investigation-of-towns-cancer-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/12/30/crestwood-residents-still-waiting-for-results-of-investigation-of-towns-cancer-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents not told until later their drinking water was polluted By Michael Hawthorne, CHICAGO TRIBUNE Six months after state health officials declared their investigation of cancer rates in south suburban Crestwood was almost complete, they have yet to release the results. The Illinois Department of Public Health, which earlier had failed to notify Crestwood residents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CDC is next stop in McCullom Lake cancer investigation</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/11/27/cdc-is-next-stop-in-mccullom-lake-cancer-investigation/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/11/27/cdc-is-next-stop-in-mccullom-lake-cancer-investigation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities who want to investigate the McCullom Lake brain cancer cases first will take the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention up on its offer to review previous research. McHenry County and state officials in a conference call this week agreed to first consult the CDC before proceeding with any investigation into why at least [...]]]></description>
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