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		<title>Community celebrates contaminating plant closure</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/12/19/community-celebrates-contaminating-plant-closure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veronica Villafañe &#124; Managing Editor Intersections South LA Councilwoman Jan Perry today joined local residents and members of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) in a press conference to celebrate the imminent closure of Palace Plating, the chrome plating facility that City officials found responsible for releasing toxic chemicals into the environment surrounding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Light at bottom of one town&#8217;s toxic water wells</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/06/25/light-at-bottom-of-one-towns-toxic-water-wells/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bill McEwen The Fresno Bee The big obstacles removed, Aletha Ware&#8217;s dream is coming into view. The Arkansas native has lived in unincorporated Kettleman City for 43 years. She has spent a goodly chunk of this time trying to bring clean and safe drinking water to the Kings County community. &#8220;It&#8217;s yellow, and it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Alert: Disease Clusters Spotlight the Need to Protect People from Toxic Chemicals</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/03/29/health-alert-disease-clusters-spotlight-the-need-to-protect-people-from-toxic-chemicals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gina Solomon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NDCA teamed with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) to report on 42 disease clusters in 13 states. We intend to complete this pilot project and cover all 50 states and U.S. territories. Read the report. Health Alert: Disease Clusters Spotlight the Need to Protect People from Toxic Chemicals [pdf 1.5MB]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Oil goes to college: a conflict of interest?</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/10/29/big-oil-goes-to-college-a-conflict-of-interest/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/10/29/big-oil-goes-to-college-a-conflict-of-interest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[conflict of interest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Margot Roosevelt Los Angeles Times Have hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from major oil companies compromised the ethics of energy research at such institutions as UC Berkeley, UC Davis and Stanford? That&#8217;s what Jennifer Washburn, a longtime critic of academic conflicts of interest, contends in &#8220;Big Oil Goes to College,&#8221; a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Killing the Babies of Kettleman City?</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/09/02/whats-killing-the-babies-of-kettleman-city/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/09/02/whats-killing-the-babies-of-kettleman-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[birth defects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#8217;s the toxic waste dump. Maybe the pesticides, or the diesel fumes, or the arsenic. How a small-town mystery could change the way we look at pollution. Mother Jones — By Jacques Leslie July/August 2010 Issue THE FIRST BABY&#8217;S NAME was America. She was born in September 2007, with Down syndrome, two heart murmurs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Possible Cancer Cluster in Carlsbad Under Investigation</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/08/25/possible-cancer-cluster-in-carlsbad-under-investigation/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/08/25/possible-cancer-cluster-in-carlsbad-under-investigation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Residents Say Cluster Exists; Officials Disagree By KIM CAROLLO, ABC News Medical Unit Aug. 25, 2010 Stacey and John Quartarone of Carlsbad, Calif., lost son Chase, 16, to non-Hodgkins lymphoma in December. A dying wish was for his parents to find out what caused his cancer. &#8220;He said, &#8216;Please don&#8217;t let anybody else get this,&#8217;&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2010/07/04/cancer-cluster-or-not-the-reality-is-plain-awful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
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		<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 [...]]]></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>
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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 [...]]]></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>
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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 [...]]]></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>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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