And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: <A HREF="http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan99/1999L-01-28-09.html"> http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan99/1999L-01-28-09.html ======================================================== LEAD POISONING TREATMENT HINDERED For many children with high blood lead levels, several problems hinder the efforts of federally supported health care programs to ensure timely tratment and followup services, according to a new report by the U.S. General Accounting Office. No national database exists for determining the extent to which follow-up services, care coordination and environmental investigations are conducted. Medicaid may not cover the required treatment because lead poisoning is an environmentally caused condition, the report says. Less than half the state Medicaid programs have policies to pay for services. The report recommends that the Secretary of Health and Human Services develop better state and local information about the extent of elevated blood lead levels; facilitate and monitor screening; improve managed care contracts; clarify what services should be available to children with high blood lead levels and improve federal efforts to coordinate lead screening and treatment with other programs serving at risk children. Lead is Number Two on the Top 10 Most Toxic list of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. For infants or young children, lead exposure has been shown to decrease intelligence (IQ) scores, slow their growth, and cause hearing problems. * * * WHISTLEBLOWER FIRING AT MILLSTONE NUCLEAR PLANT UNDER SCRUTINY Chairman Shirley Ann Jackson of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today named an administrative law judge, Acting Chief Judge Paul Bollwerk of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, to head an independent review of the dismissal by Northeast Utilities in 1996 of employees of the Millstone nuclear power plants in Waterford, Connecticut. After looking into complaints, the NRC's Office of Inspector General (IG) raised a number of questions about how the NRC handled concerns that two or more of those workers may have been let go because they raised safety concerns. The IG report concluded that the NRC staff at first found that such discrimination probably had occurred, but then reversed itself. By instituting an independent review, the Commission will be provided a second perspective on the dismissals, on how the matter was investigated, and on the decision not to take enforcement action against Northeast Utilities and one of its senior executives. The review is to be completed by March 12. * * * WASHINGTON STATE CONSULTS PUBLIC ON ENDING TOXIC RELEASES The Washington State Department of Ecology is developing a plan to end release to the environment of dioxins, furans, mercury, some pesticides and other toxins that build up in bodies, breastmilk, wildlife and food. These pollutants are linked to learning impairments, cancer, birth defects, reproductive problems, immune system damage and other problems. Washington state is the first state to consider such a move. Carol Dansereau at the Washington Toxics Coalition says the state "is under tremendous pressure from various industries to not move forward." Last August, the Department of Ecology announced a public process to discuss a plan for "virtually eliminating" the creation and release of 27 chemicals. The Department is putting the concept out to the public to determine how to proceed. Public meetings will be held to allow input on the plan. Tonight: Vancouver, Washington, Clark Community College, Foster Auditorium, 1800 East McLoughlin Boulevard. February 11: Spokane, Spokane Community College, Lair Auditorium- Building #6, 1810 North Greene St. February 25: Seattle, The Mountaineers (Tahoma Room), 300 Third Avenue West. ======================================================== Comments: The problem of lead can be environmental or from man made sources. Either way if a child or other has high lead there are effective treatments to reduce the lead in the body------FDA approved ones called EDTA-----also some vitamin ones. Kids and adults need to be aware of the ways to treat metals retention problems and not just let it exist. Uranium poisioning around nuke plants get the same attentions------they don't tell folks there are ways to fix the internal contamination problem. This same issue is at odds in the Wash state issue of long retention toxic releases that industry is trying to avoid. Here the immune damages, cancers, and learning impairments get mentioned. Their idea here is very progressive-------totally end the exposures by banning the productions and releases. The nuclear industry gets into this area about as bad as any industry-----ie the long retention toxic metals and isotopes that affect the immune response and cancer, etc. The NRC and most of the nuclear industry provides little protections to those that point out the industry health vs toxic connections. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOEWatch List --- Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/doewatch Quote from Truman's diary July 25, 1945: "We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. 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