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Cancer Pollution Report Cancer Pollution Solutions INDUSTRIES can: Stop dumping cancer-causing chemicals within five years, or reduce by 20 percent each year. Pay for independent cancer health studies of those threatened the most by cancer-causing chemical pollution. Pay sick workers and cancer victims for their medical bills, pain and suffering. Relocate victims from neighborhoods contaminated by pollution. GOVERNMENT should: Require polluters to conduct child and community cancer and health studies to determine danger near major pollution sites - power plants, highways and airports. Polluters should prove they are doing no harm to children, neighbors and communities. Enforce the Superfund law to clean up toxic waste sites, and the Clean Water Act to keep pollution out of our drinking water. Enforce the Clean Air Act health and urban air pollution standards to protect people from cancer-causing pollution. Expand efforts to test new and existing polluting chemicals for cancer, birth defects and hormone disruption. Tax cancer-causing and other toxic pollution as allowed by the Clean Air Act to pay for health costs and compensate victims, a program similar to the proposed tobacco settlement. PROTECT yourself and your family. Learn what cancer-causing chemicals are being dumped at www.scorecard.org. Hold corporations accountable and support efforts to force companies to clean up their pollution. DEMAND your elected officials take action. Contact your elected officials Contact Administrator Christie Whitman, Environmental Protection Agency, 401 M Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20460. Cancer Pollution Report Main Up to Top HOME | Email Signup | About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use | © 2008 Sierra Club