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		<title>Cancer cluster or not, the reality is plain awful</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/07/04/cancer-cluster-or-not-the-reality-is-plain-awful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carlsbad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[La Quinta Middle School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-Hodgkin's lymphoma]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columnist Logan Jenkins
By Logan Jenkins, San Diego Union-Tribute
Sunday, July 4, 2010 at 9 p.m.
Three years ago, my sister died in a cancer cluster.
Or so she and her fellow teachers believed like an article of faith.
As it almost invariably does, the California Cancer Registry debunked the plague that gave my sister’s terminal illness meaning beyond herself.
If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents seek answers on Carlsbad cancer cases</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/29/parents-seek-answers-on-carlsbad-cancer-cases/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/29/parents-seek-answers-on-carlsbad-cancer-cases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY BRUCE LIEBERMAN, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
THURSDAY, APRIL 29, 2010 AT 12:04 A.M.
Frustrated parents appealed to public health and environmental officials at a forum Wednesday night to do something about what they perceive to be a cancer cluster in Carlsbad.
The county-sponsored public forum drew strong emotions from people calling for answers.
“We want to know what you’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals Court Upholds Environmental Justice in Richmond</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/28/appeals-court-upholds-environmental-justice-in-richmond/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/28/appeals-court-upholds-environmental-justice-in-richmond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[~Media Feeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Environmental Impact Report for refinery expansion ruled inadequate
Richmond, April 26, 2010 — In an unprecedented victory for the community, the California State Court of Appeals has upheld the majority of findings in a lower court decision that the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the expansion of the Chevron Corporation&#8217;s refinery in Richmond California violated state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emissions often underestimated, EPA standards old</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/23/emissions-often-underestimated-epa-standards-old/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/23/emissions-often-underestimated-epa-standards-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 00:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Subject: Hazardous emissions from refineries are not reported
By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI (AP) 4-23-10
HOUSTON — The nation&#8217;s oil and chemical plants are spewing a lot more pollution than they report to the Environmental Protection Agency — and the EPA knows it.
But the federal agency has yet to adopt more accurate, higher-tech measuring methods that have been available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grieving Kettleman City mothers tackle a toxic waste dump</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/01/grieving-kettleman-city-mothers-tackle-a-toxic-waste-dump/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/04/01/grieving-kettleman-city-mothers-tackle-a-toxic-waste-dump/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Louis Sahagun
LA Times
Reporting from Kettleman City, Calif.
On a rainy afternoon in a cramped trailer, the five homemakers listened as state officials with clipboards asked personal questions: Did they or their husbands smoke, drink or take illicit drugs? Had they been exposed to pesticides or other toxic substances in the United States or Mexico? Do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Closer Look: Kettleman City cleft deformities raise questions of a cluster case</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/02/22/a-closer-look-kettleman-city-cleft-deformities-raise-questions-of-a-cluster-case/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/02/22/a-closer-look-kettleman-city-cleft-deformities-raise-questions-of-a-cluster-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents in the San Joaquin Valley town suspect a toxic waste dump, although that’s only one possibility. Gov. Schwarzenegger has ordered an investigation. Cluster cases are often hard to prove.]]></description>
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		<title>Bayview Hunters Point Residents Want Better Clean-up</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/01/25/bayview-hunters-point-residents-want-better-clean-up/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/01/25/bayview-hunters-point-residents-want-better-clean-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[~Impacted Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[~Media Feeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bayview Hunters Point]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fenceline communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school siting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superfund]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NDCA representatives visited the Bayview neighborhood in South San Francisco last week, receiving a tour of the area affected by the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard superfund site. The community has several specific requests:
1. The Navy should clean up the remaining contaminated sites, and not just cap them.
 This is especially important given the risk that an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Dirty Electricity Making You Sick?</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/12/28/is-dirty-electricity-making-you-sick/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/12/28/is-dirty-electricity-making-you-sick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Too many electromagnetic fields surrounding us&#8211;from cell phones, wifi, and commonplace modern technology&#8211;may be seriously harming our health. Here&#8217;s how to minimize your exposure.
By Michael Segell
Prevention Magazine
The California Cluster
IN 1990, the city of La Quinta, CA, proudly opened the doors of its sparkling new middle school. Gayle Cohen, then a sixth-grade teacher, recalls the sense [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kettleman City asks: Why so many birth defects?</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/12/09/kettleman-city-asks-why-so-many-birth-defects/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/12/09/kettleman-city-asks-why-so-many-birth-defects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some residents of the impoverished town wonder if a nearby
     hazardous waste facility is to blame.
By Louis Sahagun
December 8, 2009
Reporting from Kettleman City, Calif.
When environmental activists began a survey of birth defects in this small migrant farming town halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the results were alarming.
Approximately 20 babies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kettleman City parents want inquiry into birth defects</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/11/21/kettleman-city-parents-want-inquiry-into-birth-defects/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2009/11/21/kettleman-city-parents-want-inquiry-into-birth-defects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birth defects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Anderson / The Fresno Bee
KETTLEMAN CITY &#8212; Five babies with cleft palates or other grave disabilities were born over a 15-month span in this small farming community off Interstate 5. Three died.
Many parents worry that poisons in the air, water and land are to blame. Their town of 1,500 is wedged in among [...]]]></description>
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