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Neighborhoods need better protection from toxins

Massachusetts attorney Thomas M. Kiley, concentrates on legal issues regarding children's health.  A recent article in the Boston Globe chronicles the progress the Agency for Toxic Substances is making in improving protection of neighborhoods from toxins.  The article describes how the federal agency is working to assess the health risks at Superfund cleanup sites and other hazardous waste locations.

 At a Congressional hearing, the agency officials told the representatives that it has had to deal with 200 fewer staff positions and a lack of expertise in some scientific fields like veterinary medicine and meteorology.
      
 Some scientists and residents of communities with toxic poisoning testified before Congress that ATSDR is failing to address contamination and deformed animals, in pursuing hazardous waste documentation, and test for exposure to depleted uranium.