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About the Children's Environmental Health InitiativePartnership Targeting Lead Poisoning in North Carolina Wins EPA Award for Environmental Justice -- October 20, 2008 A Duke University-led community partnership that is helping reduce the risk of lead poisoning among children in North Carolina will receive a 2008 National Achievement in Environmental Justice Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Marie Lynn Miranda, director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative (CEHI) at Duke University, will accept the award on behalf of the partnership in a ceremony October 21 in Atlanta. The award cites CEHI for its work since 2002 to promote early intervention strategies to prevent lead poisoning, particularly its efforts to develop and distribute a new mapping tool that public health agencies and community advocates can use to identify households where children are most at risk... continue reading this article. Also, read the Duke Chronicle Online newspaper article here... View the EPA's Environmental Justice Achievement Awards page. For more information contact:
Marie Lynn Miranda, CEHI, (919) 613-8023, mmiranda@duke.edu | ||
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