Given the poor state of our children's health in NE Georgia, the infant mortality increase nationwide, and the dismal outlook for public health in the state of Georgia, we should stop and ask ourselves: are we slowly poisoining our future generations by allowing dirty industries like CertainTeed, Nakanishi, Trus Joist, Johns Manville and Louisiana Pacific to dump their dangerous air toxic emissions into our children's air?
These irresponsible industries should be required by EPD to clean up their acts with greener technologies and better pollution controls to insure safe air for pregnant women and their children. Local governments should protect their youngest citizens by demanding these industries update their dinosaur operations that perpetuate poverty in the neighborhoods they effect. Migrating carcinogenic atmospheric pollutants contribute to environmental degradation that are linked to death and long term health and learning problems in children. When unborn children are testing for a toxic cocktail of industrial pollutants, the time has come to do something about it.
jill mcelheney
MICAH's Mission Ministry to Improve Child & Adolescent Health
P.O. Box 275
Winterville, GA 30683
(t) 706.742.7826
(f) 706.543.1799
website: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~babuice/MICAH/index.htm "He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8
Given the poor state of our children's health in NE Georgia, the infant mortality increase nationwide, and the dismal outlook for public health in the state of...