I urge all of you parents on my multilists To Please send this information to
your Local
Newspapers and Television Media, The whole world needs to have this
information,This
information, really hits the nail on the head,on the wrong doings,of the EPA,I
strongly urge
you to step up to the plate and furnish the facts contained here to every
newsource ,We
can not tolerate,these Governmental organizations, the EPA and the Bush
Administration,with the willful distruction,of innocent childrends lives,
Bill Heavens, Hope4Kids2. Please read this factual information provided by my
good friend
Jill In Athens Georgia. Thanks..

Micahsmission@... wrote:


WHITE COLLAR CRIME AGAINST CHILDREN OF ATHENS IS AN AFFRONT TO CREATOR

The Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress,
recently released
an alarming report documenting the failure of the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)
to protect the public from chemicals. On the heals of that report, the Centers
for Disease
Control & Prevention released its most extensive findings ever on our exposures
to
chemicals in the environment revealing the highest concentration of toxic
chemicals are in
our children. Even unborn babies have tested for hundreds of unsafe pollutants
and
compounds that industry has and continues to emit into our environment.

Those of us who turned out last week to hear what our children will be required
to breathe
when CertainTeed expands, feel our state Environmental Protection Division (EPD)
and
local government have failed to do their #1 job: to protect the health,
welfare and safety
of its youngest citizens. I have not given consent to EPD for my children to
breathe
CertainTeed's air toxic emissions increase as has none of the eight hundred
(800) people
who signed a petition.

Weeks before this EPD/ CertainTeed Q&A, I requested to share the formal agenda
with
them to present critical information to the public. I appealed up the chain of
command
ultimately asking permission from Dr. Carol Couch the head of EPD. As an
advocate to
improve childhood and adolescent health, I had hoped to share scientific
evidence
regarding CertainTeed's combustion atmospheric pollutants. To double these
dangerous
emissions will not only make children sick, it will kill them.

Having been denied to be on the agenda, I suggested EPD inform the public with
an
understandable chemical by chemical analysis of the health effects that
CertainTeed's air
toxins have on fetuses and children. I also asked that EPD present studies
available on
the combined effects of these chemicals on growing bodies. Apparently, EPD
didn't think
such information to the public was worthy of their time although children will
be breathing
CertainTeed's migrating cancerous pollutants.

Permitting pollution increases that are unsafe for children which perpetuate
dirty and
dangerous industry appear to be the bottom line for EPD and CertainTeed. To
degradate
the air and prosper at the expense of human life is appalling. White collar
crime against
children should not be tolerated. Local government is sitting on the
sidelines falsely
claiming they are without any power to defend our children. When the next
election rolls
around, remind them they missed out on the political opportunity of a lifetime:
shielding
innocent children from corporate abuse of the environment.

CertainTeed is a multi-billion dollar fiberglass insulation manufacturing plant
that has
been irresponsibly dumping their air toxics in our community for over 30 years.
In
operation 24/7/365 days a year, their smoking stacks can be seen emitting what
CertainTeed wants us to believe is little more than water and air. That little
more is a lot
of trouble to children.

Combustion atmospheric pollutants were found in 2005 to have a role in the cause
of
childhood cancer. Childhood cancer experts have discovered that industrial
hotspots like
CertainTeed that emit tons a day of carbon monoxide, VOCs and respirable
particulate
matter pose a health hazard to the community children within 1 kilometer of the
facility.
Inhaled by pregnant women, these carcinogenic atmospheric emissions can cause
chromosomal damage in utero to their unborn offspring which begins the process
that
leads to childhood cancer. Childhood cancer is the #1 cause of disease
related deaths
in children, and we have our share of it in Athens. The children in Athens
have one
thing in common: the air they breathe.

MICAH's Mission will not allow children to become collateral damage of
industries who
could afford to do much better with their pollution control and safer
alternatives. If GA
EPD, local government and CertainTeed want proof that they are killing kids,
that is exactly
what they will get.

MICAH's Mission has already begun a childhood cancer registry of the area's
children who
have been diagnosed with leukemias, lymphomas, brain and solid tumors. When
CertainTeed starts their new expansion, we will start monitoring the air and
children. In
due time, we will have our proof that children are the most effected from
CertainTeed's
greed. The lack of prevention and precautionary action from our elected
officials will be
embarrassing.

Once the crimes against children have been documented, we will seek out who is
liable. I
suggest people move away from CertainTeed if possible, but for those that can't,
we will
be here to help reduce the environmental hazards in the lives of your children.

Children are divine gifts from the Creator. Be assured, God is not mocked.
The bottom
line that ultimately matters is HIS.


Jill McElheney
MICAH's Mission
P.O. Box 275
Winterville, GA 30683
706.742.7826
Micahsmission@...