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2. Keynote: Ensuring Environmental Health in Pennsylvania
Pages 10-12

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... This is especially true for global environmental issues. It's hard enough to communicate local and immediate environmental concerns to the public, even when there is at least some degree of tangibility to people in the smoke plume or the dirty water, for instance that they may experience directly.
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... The health community's willingness to step up to the plate and help federal, state, and local governments address that question to establish priorities is always very much appreciated, especially in tight budgetary times. Such involvement has had the effect, for example, of enabling massive efforts such as Pennsylvania's brownfield cleanups or what we like to call our "industrial-sites recycling effort." Toxic contamination has been cleaned up in this state at more than 1,000 sites, where economic vitality has once again been made possible.
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... that were contributing, and what actions would be most appropriate for example, responders could make decisions on where to spray and where not to spray in a much more intelligent fashion. Building on that West Nile database, the state created PAIRS the Pennsylvania Incident Response System which was developed in the aftermath of September 11, when it was realized that a much more effective real-time system was needed to gather data and understand situations that might be evolving.
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