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. This research shows that at the critical time when a child is developing, the umbilical cord is carrying industrial chemicals, pollutants and pesticides. \"The Kid-Safe Chemicals Act would dramatically increase EPA's authority and ability to protect children's health and to achieve the new goals you have enumerated for the agency,\" wrote Cook. \"We urge you, on behalf of the Obama administration, to endorse the Kid-Safe legislation as soon as possible.\" \"As a result of the failed federal toxics program, we now have babies born pre-polluted in this country with a cocktail of over two hundred toxic chemicals already in their bloodstreams - many linked to a number of very serious health problems, including cancer, that are on the rise in the U.S.,\" Cook said in a separate statement. \"We're encouraging Administrator Jackson to join Sen. Lautenberg and Rep. Waxman in driving reforms that may someday allow babies to arrive free of contamination.\" A PDF of Cook's letter to Admin. Jackson is attached to this release:","author":{"@type":"Person","description":"Newswire Editor is a Common Dreams staff position.","identifier":"25413159","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://www.commondreams.org/media-library/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8zMjg5OTM0MS9vcmlnaW4ucG5nIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTc4ODc3OTc4NH0.Kro-XRoA7MB_ddUbc_2x6KjtfCnnkFR_VUghmVRfeoE/image.png?width=210"},"name":"newswireeditor","url":"https://www.commondreams.org/author/newswireeditor"},"dateModified":"2022-12-21T22:51:51Z","datePublished":"2009-02-18T16:18:31Z","description":"Environmental Working Group (EWG) President Ken Cook today urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson to support The Kid-Safe Chemicals Act , a proposed reform of U.S. toxic chemical controls to be reintroduced in coming weeks in both the House and Senate.","headline":"EWG Asks EPA Chief To Support Toxics Reform Bill","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","height":"600","representativeOfPage":"True","url":"","width":"1200"},"isAccessibleForFree":"True","mainEntityOfPage":"https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/18/ewg-asks-epa-chief-support-toxics-reform-bill","publisher":{"@id":"https://www.commondreams.org/","@type":"Organization","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","height":"511","url":"https://assets.rbl.ms/32373543/origin.png","width":"1501"},"name":"Common Dreams","sameAs":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Dreams","https://www.facebook.com/commondreams.org","https://twitter.com/commondreams"],"url":"https://www.commondreams.org/"},"speakable":{"@type":"SpeakableSpecification","cssSelector":["h1",".widget__subheadline",".social-author",".body-description"]}},{"@id":"https://www.commondreams.org/","@type":"Organization","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressCountry":"USA","addressLocality":"Portland","addressRegion":"Maine","postalCode":"04112","streetAddress":"PO Box 443"},"alternateName":"CommonDreams.org","contactPoint":{"@type":"ContactPoint","availableLanguage":"English","email":"info@commondreams.org","telephone":"+1-207-775-0488","url":"https://www.commondreams.org"},"ethicsPolicy":"https://www.commondreams.org/ethics-policy","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","height":"511","representativeOfPage":"True","url":"https://assets.rbl.ms/32373543/origin.png","width":"1501"},"name":"Common Dreams","nonprofitStatus":"Nonprofit501c3","publishingPrinciples":"https://www.commondreams.org/publishing-principles","sameAs":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Dreams","https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0010146/","https://www.facebook.com/commondreams.org","https://twitter.com/commondreams","https://www.instagram.com/commondreams/"],"telephone":"207-775-0488","url":"https://www.commondreams.org/"}]}
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