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6 Community Involvement in Response to Disasters
Pages 48-54

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... The project will be a network of researchers who share data and ideas, crossing disciplinary, geographic, and institutional lines and providing models for how to respond to major environmental disasters. The central premise will focus on coordination and collaboration to gathering time-sensitive data, noted McLachlan.
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From page 49...
... Intended KERRN Products The network has three goals: intellectual capacity, preparing for future disasters, and approaching environmental health in the region in a systematic way. First, a network in which the scientific community engages in working on problems may help to rebuild the intellectual capacity in the region, noted McLachlan.
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... . Alabama's Black Belt and Environmental Health Alabama's black belt reflects the area's poverty.
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... , solid waste disposal landfills, and chemical waste sites. Not only are chemical waste sites a public health concern, but they also create environmental justice issues because of their locations, noted Hullett.
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... ENSURING PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE RIGHT OF RETURN Advocates for Environmental Human Rights is a nonprofit public interest law firm whose mission is to advance and defend the human right to a healthy and safe environment. This organization conducts litigation on behalf of communities.
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From page 53...
... certain sets of conditions have to be met involving economic opportuni- -- MoniqueHarden ties, housing, social conditions, and environmental health and public health. Today there are several known toxic threats in New Orleans, including biological pathogens in the remaining floodwaters and soil, semivolatile chemical compounds, heavy metals, the potential intrusion of contaminants in the drinking water system, and toxic mold in houses and buildings, noted Harden.
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... Compliance with environmental and public health laws: Rigorous compliance with all existing environmental public health laws and standards, including the federal executive order concerning environmental justice, is still needed in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast, noted Harden. To protect public health and the public's right to return, EPA needs to convene monthly public meetings with communities in coordination with communitybased organizations and relevant agencies to monitor, assess the risk, and remediate public health threats in hurricane-affected areas.
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