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5149.0 Fenceline communities: Fighting for environmental justiceWednesday, November 10, 2010: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Oral
The session aims to educate the audience about serious environmental public health problems often faced by those who live in close proximity to manufacturing plants, waste management and chemical processing facilities, etc.Measures taken to curtail and /or prevent environmental exposures often include fenceline monitoring by responsible companies to promote good neighborliness and compliance with environmnetal health and safety laws and regulations. The presentations will provide current environmental health data and information regarding fencline communities.
Session Objectives: 1. Define what fenceline communities and fenceline monitoring are.
2. Describe the ecological and public health consequences of fenceline pollution.
3.Discuss the importance of scientific research, public relation and regulatory enforcement on fenceline pollution.
Organizer:
Tunde M. Akinmoladun, PhD, FRSPH
Moderator:
Tunde M. Akinmoladun, PhD, FRSPH
1:00pm
1:15pm
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. Organized by: Environment
CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)
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