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		<title>Cancer Cluster In St. Paul: Correlation Or Coincidence?</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2012/05/02/cancer-cluster-in-st-paul-correlation-or-coincidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Minnesota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer rates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecolotech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fridley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS Minnesota, WCCO-TV MINNEAPOLIS , Minn. – Residents of a St. Paul neighborhood with higher than average cancer cases are wondering if it could be linked to nearby hazardous waste sites. &#160; When Denise Gulner of St. Paul looks down her block, she knows of her neighbors’ struggles. “We’ve got a house here that’s prostate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Erin Brockovich Launches Investigation Into Tic Illness Affecting N.Y. Teenagers</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2012/01/27/erin-brockovich-launches-investigation-into-tic-illness-affecting-n-y-teenagers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyanide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erin Brockovich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LeRoy High School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TCE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourette Syndrome]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By KATIE MOISSE (@katiemoisse) and LINSEY DAVIS ABC News Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has launched her own investigation into the mysterious illness causing facial tics and verbal outbursts among 15 teenagers in Le Roy, N.Y. Most of the teens have been diagnosed with conversion disorder &#8212; a psychological condition that causes physical symptoms like jerky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 girls at NY high school develop involuntary tics; doc says it’s ‘mass psychogenic illness’</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2012/01/20/12-girls-at-ny-high-school-develop-involuntary-tics-doc-says-it%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98mass-psychogenic-illness%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anxiety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conversion disorder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LeRoy High School]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mass psychogenic illness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seizures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Associated Press, LEROY, N.Y. — A dozen western New York high school girls have developed involuntary tics and other symptoms, and a doctor said Friday that at least 10 of them are suffering from a psychological condition usually brought on by stress or a frightening condition. Parents became concerned there might have been environmental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community celebrates contaminating plant closure</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/12/19/community-celebrates-contaminating-plant-closure/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/12/19/community-celebrates-contaminating-plant-closure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cadmium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chrome plating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromic acid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contaminated schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LAUSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Los Angeles Unified School District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lung cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palace Plating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pancreatic cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school clusters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tetrachloroethylene]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[toxic chemicals]]></category>

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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>&#8220;Poster Child&#8221; for Environmental Racism Finds Justice in Dickson, TN</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/12/08/poster-child-for-environmental-racism-finds-justice-in-dickson-tn/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/12/08/poster-child-for-environmental-racism-finds-justice-in-dickson-tn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contamination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dickson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental racism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Huang&#8217;s Blog, NRDC “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” &#8211; Frederick Douglass (1855) After a nine-year struggle, today Sheila Holt-Orsted and her family can finally put to rest their long battle for environmental justice in Dickson, Tennessee as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film on Clyde cancer cluster seeks answers</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/12/06/film-on-clyde-cancer-cluster-seeks-answers/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/12/06/film-on-clyde-cancer-cluster-seeks-answers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cancer cluster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clyde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[films]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Written by Sheri Trusty, Staff Correspondent, The News-Messenger CLYDE, Ohio &#8212; The Clyde Public Library hosted a viewing of the film &#8220;Fighting for Answers&#8221; on Monday night. The film detailed the struggles of three Clyde families who have fought unsuccessfully to find the causes of their children&#8217;s cancer. The film&#8217;s director, Adan Garcia, a Fremont [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Claims of cancer cluster from chemicals burned at Fiskville training centre</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/12/06/claims-of-cancer-cluster-from-chemicals-burned-at-fiskville-training-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/12/06/claims-of-cancer-cluster-from-chemicals-burned-at-fiskville-training-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[~Media Feeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burn pits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical fires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical waste]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fire]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[waste disposal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Kellee Nolan and Melissa Iaria The Sydney Morning Herald Australian Associated Press (AAP) The Victorian Country Fire Authority&#8217;s alleged failure to tell past workers they had been exposed to cancer-causing chemicals at a training base may have cost lives, says a former CFA chief officer who has cancer. Brian Potter, 68, has suffered ill-health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Child leukaemias &#8216;not linked to nuclear plants&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/08/19/child-leukaemias-not-linked-to-nuclear-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/08/19/child-leukaemias-not-linked-to-nuclear-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[~Media Feeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[childhood leukemia clusters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dounreay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Fergus Walsh Medical correspondent, BBC News Radiation sign But the report says there is no increased cancer risk near nuclear power plants Children living near nuclear power plants in Britain are no more likely to develop leukaemia than those living elsewhere, experts have found. Any risk was &#8220;extremely small, if not actually zero&#8221;, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Cancer Village&#8217; blames chrome plant</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/08/19/cancer-village-blames-chrome-plant/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/08/19/cancer-village-blames-chrome-plant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[~Media Feeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chromium]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Yang Jian Shanghai Daily ELEVEN people have died from cancers since 2002 in a village in southwest China&#8217;s Yunnan Province where a chemical plant has piled chromium slag near the village for 10 years, China Central Television reported yesterday. The Luliang County Heping Chemical Plant in Qujing City attracted media attention recently after it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local Swim Clubs &#8216;Go Gold&#8217; to Cure Kids Cancer</title>
		<link>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/08/18/local-swim-clubs-go-gold-to-cure-kids-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://clusteralliance.org/2011/08/18/local-swim-clubs-go-gold-to-cure-kids-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Little Silver girl with Ewing&#8217;s Sarcoma inspires awareness campaign to research better treatments for childhood cancer. By Greg Kulaga The Long Branch Patch Long Branch, NJ&#8211;When doctors told 9-year-old Little Silver resident Lilly Daneman she wouldn&#8217;t be able to swim again after being diagnosed with Ewing&#8217;s Sarcoma, a pediatric bone cancer, she was determined to [...]]]></description>
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