PA DEP, EPA, and many state elected officials have tried to hide from the reality and even cover up the truth about the enormous exposure risks to our health in the Greater Pottstown Area. Those who make the decisions and those who stand idly by and watch are all responsible for our growing health crisis, along with the major polluters.

• DEP has manipulated sampling and test results in favor of the polluters and refused to adequately answer and address most of the community's questions and concerns. The major polluters continue to get pollution permits which continually make a bad situation worse in our area. The health crisis continues to grow.
• Pollution permits have been based on unprotective standards and regulations. Common sense and logic are missing.
• DEP's refusal to evaluate all our most dangerous exposure risks when issuing air pollution permits has been termed reckless endangerment to tens of thousands of area residents.

• She warned of the serious threats to our health from all of the hazardous air we are breathing. Whether slowly or quickly, this can progressively harm any part of the human body - doing damage which can last for years or even a lifetime.
• She said there is no doubt that the extremely dangerous polluting industries like the Pottstown Landfill, Occidental Chemical, and the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant are destroying not only our air but our water and soil as well.
• She said the Greater Pottstown Area may be "worse than Love Canal."
• We must make a connection between cause and effect so that we will start to take action to protect our children, families, and friends.
• Hazardous chemical exposures are a major factor in the onset of allergies, asthma, ADD in children, and an immense variety of other health problems.
• These exposures are impairing our health, well-being, and potential of many children and adults.
• Frustrating and debilitating environmental illnesses are also causing us great psychological stress.
• Dr. Rapp believes we all need to develop increased awareness of what can cause ill health, inappropriate and even violent behavior, and an inability to learn.
• Dr. Rapp believes we urgently need to address the issue of toxic exposures by (1) first recognizing them, (2) trying to avoid and remove them, and (3) finding solutions to them.

• Chemical Exposure and Disease provides investigative and diagnostic techniques with case-reports for all body systems: Brain, Pulmonary, Reproductive, Gastrointestinal, etc.
  
  a. It covers the inherently dangerous industries releasing hazardous chemicals and examples of chemicals causing endocrine-disruption, neurological damage, cancer, and birth defects.
  
  b. This book DISPELS the notion that "MORE STUDIES are needed" before we can take action to take action to prevent harm.
  
  
• Life's Delicate Balance focuses on the causes and prevention of cancer, especially breast cancer in both women and men.
  
  a. Analyses identify the links between chemicals like those from the Pottstown Landfill and Occidental Chemical, ionizing radiation like that from the Limerick Nuclear Power Plant, endocrine disrupters like dioxin from the landfill and Occidental, and cancer.
  
  b. Dispels "myths" of risk for cancer.
  
  c. It provides insight into the economic and political factors fueling the cancer epidemic and what can be done to end this tragic disease.
  
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  Dr. Sherman's presentation in Pottstown verified the dangerous risks we face due to the massive hazardous chemical combinations emitted into our air from Occidental Chemical and the Pottstown Landfill which then synergized and add on to the radiation emissions from the Limerick Nuclear plant. She left us with no doubt that nuclear plants emit radiation which damage our health in many ways in extremely tiny amounts. Radiation, combined with dioxin from so many sources which also damages our health in very small amounts is synergized and added to massive amounts of other hazardous chemical combinations creating a dangerous and even deadly situation.

a. With Joseph Mangano's visit and press conference Pottstown joined the national "Tooth Fairy Project" to get members of our area to send in baby teeth to be measured for radiation.

b. Mr. Mangano compiled cancer statistics for Montgomery County which ACE announced at the press conference. The Center For Disease Control and Prevention revealed alarming childhood cancer increases. Shocking increases in many cancers from the PA Cancer Registry confirmed our suspicions.

• Dr. Flood identified numerous hazardous emissions in our air, which are particularly alarming health threats, such as dioxin.
• Of particular concern to her are the endocrine disrupting chemicals.
• Dr. Flood is noticing many more asthma cases in her patients from this area than where she came from in Chicago.

• He has acknowledged increased skin problems and cancers in his patients in his Pottstown office compared with his office in another location.
• For some time he has been convinced of the toxic chemical link to endometriosis.
• Dr. Vickerman recently sent a letter to Mayor Anne Jones in which he referred to a July, 2001 article in Science News which proved that LANDFILLS MAKE MERCURY MORE TOXIC. This is just one example of how much more dangerous toxic landfill gas can become when all hazardous substances are mixed together.
• Dr. Vickerman believes that transporting and ultimately burning toxic landfill gases in or near a residential region seems highly ill advised.
• Dr. Vickerman says the transport by pipe or combustion of this toxic mixture of gasses should be prohibited in or near residential areas.