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Children's Health and Environment Fact Sheets

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Outdoor Air Quality, November 2004

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Developmental Disabilities, November 2004

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Legislative Summary, November 2004

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Mercury, November 2004

Children's Health and the Environment

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Biomonitoring: A Best Practices Report for State Legislators, May 2010

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"Ensuring Child Product Safety," LegisBrief, June/July 2008 

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Healthy Environment, Healthy Kids, 2004

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"Childhood Cancer: Looking for the Environmental Link," Public Health News, 2003

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Children's Environmental Health State Health Lawmaker's Digest, 2001

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"Asthma, A Growing Epidemic," Environmental Health Series, 2000

Environmental Health Series

The Environmental Health Series provides policymakers and other interested parties with objective and up-to-date information on today's most important environmental health issues, including asthma, pesticides, and children's environmental health. All issues in the series have been reviewed for scientific accuracy by experts from the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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"Biomonitoring," Environmental Health Series, 2004

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"Biological and Chemical Terrorism," Environmental Health Series, 2003

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"Connecting Health and the Environment," Environmental Health Series, 2003

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"Revitalizing Environmental Health Services," Environmental Health Series, 2003

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"Indoor Air Quality," Environmental Health Series, 2002

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"Asthma, A Growing Epidemic," Environmental Health Series, 2000

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"Growth Management and Healthy Cities, " Environmental Health Series, 2000

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"Genetics: Linking Health and the Environment," Environmental Health Series, 2000

General Environmental Health

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Food Safety Modernization Act,  2011

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Environmental Health Databases 2009 - 2011

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 Healthy Housing Web Brief, January 2009

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State of Emergency: Public Health Laboratories and Terrorism Preparedness, LegisBrief, Aug./Sept. 2008

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 Health Impact Assessment, Web Brief, October 2008

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 "Food Fight," State Legislatures, October/November 2007

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 "Environmental Enemies," State Legislatures, September 2007

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State Mosquito Control Policies: Preventing Emerging Diseases, 2006

PDF "Linking the Environment to Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities," Public Health News, 2004
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 Is There a Connection Between Sprawl and Health?, Public Health News, 2002

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 The Environment and Disease: Tracking the Health Connection, Public Health News, 2001

Indoor Air Quality

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Carbon Monoxide Detectors, State Statutes, January 2011

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Healthy Homes Overview, January 2009

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Mold - Legisbrief, 2003

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Asthma - Legisbrief, 2003

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Individual State Programs Related to Asthma, January 2003

 Legislation and Statutes

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Environmental Health Databases 2009 - 2011

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Carbon Monoxide Detectors, State Statutes, January 2011

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Environmental Health in the 2010 State Legislative Sessions

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Environmental Health in the 2009 State Legislative Sessions

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State Bedbug Laws, March 2011

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State Regulation of PBDEs, February 2011

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Carbon Monoxide Detectors, State Statutes, January 2011

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NCSL Policy Update: State Restrictions on Bisphenol A (BPA) in Consumer Products, November 2010

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State Lead Poisoning Prevention Statutes, March 2010

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Radon State Statutes, 2008

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Select School Indoor Air Quality Statutes 2008

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State Statutes Surveys Mercury Emissions 2007

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State Laws Addressing Mold Inspection and Remediation 2007

Radon

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"State Radon Programs," LegisBrief, November/December 2008

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Radon State Statutes, 2008

 

Lead Hazards Project

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NCSL Lead Hazards Project

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Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting: A Guide for States, December 2010

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Lead-Based Paint Hazards Reduction Standards, January 2010

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Lead Poisoning Prevention: A Guide for Legislators, 1994. A comprehensive overview of the issues and policies surrounding lead poisoning prevention and lead hazard reduction.

 

State Chemical Policies

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State Regulation of PBDEs, February 2011

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NCSL Policy Update: State Restrictions on Bisphenol A (BPA) in Consumer Products, November 2010

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“Measuring Chemicals in Humans: State Biomonitoring Policies,” LegisBrief, November/December, 2010

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Biomonitoring: A Best Practices Report for State Legislators, May 2010

 

 Environmental Health Overview

 

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