{"id":5042,"date":"2009-12-04T10:03:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2009-12-04T10:03:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T18:33:22","slug":"risking-the-lives-of-the-unborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=5042","title":{"rendered":"Risking the Lives of the Unborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a id=\"title_permalink\" title=\"Permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/carl-pope\/risking-the-lives-of-the_b_379454.html\">Risking the Lives of the Unborn<\/a> published in the Huffington Post,\u00a0\u00a0Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, writes &#8220;For the last eight years, federal agencies charged with protecting our health were systematically discouraged or even prevented from doing their jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the central villains of the great toxic cover-up, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), has admitted that its earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/30\/science\/earth\/30agency.html\">&#8220;clean bill of health&#8221; to the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico was unwarranted.<\/a> Only months earlier, the ATSDR also conceded that it had incorrectly determined that contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, NC, posed no increased risk of cancer to adults.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, ATSDR has given the &#8220;clean bill of health&#8221; to several military toxic sites, despite significant community concern about the environmental health impacts.\u00a0 It&#8217;s time to revisit the ATSDR &#8220;studies&#8221; in Hawai&#8217;i.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Risking the Lives of the Unborn published in the Huffington Post,\u00a0\u00a0Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, writes &#8220;For the last eight years, federal agencies charged with protecting our health were systematically discouraged or even prevented from doing their jobs.&#8221; One of the central villains of the great toxic cover-up, the Agency for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=5042\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Risking the Lives of the Unborn&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2407],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-environmental-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}