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TOXIC CHEMICALS AND CHILDREN’S 

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 

FIELD HEARING 

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SUPERFUND, 

TOXICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON 

ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS 

UNITED STATES SENATE 

ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS 

SECOND SESSION 

OCTOBER 26, 2010—NEWARK, NJ 

Printed for the use of the Committee on Environment and Public Works 

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Available via the World Wide Web: http://www.fdsys.gov 

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COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS 

ONE HUNDRED ELEVENTH CONGRESS 

SECOND SESSION 

BARBARA BOXER, California, Chairman 

MAX BAUCUS, Montana 

THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware 

FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, New Jersey 

BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland 

BERNARD SANDERS, Vermont 

AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota 

SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island 

TOM UDALL, New Mexico 

JEFF MERKLEY, Oregon 

KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, New York 

ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania 

JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma 

GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, Ohio 

DAVID VITTER, Louisiana 

JOHN BARRASSO, Wyoming 

MIKE CRAPO, Idaho 

CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, Missouri 

LAMAR ALEXANDER, Tennessee 

BETTINA POIRIER, Staff Director 

RUTH VAN MARK, Minority Staff Director 

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SUPERFUND, TOXICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH

FRANK R. LAUTENBERG, New Jersey, Chairman 

MAX BAUCUS, Montana 

AMY KLOBUCHAR, Minnesota 

SHELDON WHITEHOUSE, Rhode Island 

KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND, New York 

ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania 

BARBARA BOXER, California (ex officio) 

JAMES M. INHOFE, Oklahoma 

MIKE CRAPO, Idaho 

CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, Missouri 

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C O N T E N T S 

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OCTOBER 26, 2010 

OPENING STATEMENT 

Lautenberg, Hon. Frank R., U.S. Senator from the State of New Jersey ........... 2 

WITNESSES 

Jackson, Hon. Lisa, Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ..... 11 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 19 

Responses to additional questions from: 

Senator Boxer ............................................................................................ 28 

Senator Inhofe ........................................................................................... 30 

Gupta, Sanjay, M.D., Chief Medical Correspondent, Cable News Network 

(CNN) .................................................................................................................... 47 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 56 

Huguenin, Lisa, Ph.D., New Jersey mother of child with autism and an 

immune system disorder ..................................................................................... 55 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 64 

Marcus, Steven, M.D., Executive and Medical Director, New Jersey Poison 

Information and Education System; Professor, Department of Preventative 

Medicine and Community Health, and Associate Professor of Pediatrics, 

New Jersey Medical School of the University of Medicine and Dentistry 

of New Jersey ....................................................................................................... 66 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 71 

Responses to additional questions from Senator Inhofe ............................... 75 

Perera, Frederica, DrPH, Director, Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health; Professor of Public Health, Department of Environmental 

Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ...... 79 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 87 

Responses to additional questions from Senator Inhofe ............................... 92 

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TOXIC CHEMICALS AND CHILDREN’S 

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2010 

U.S. SENATE, 

COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS, 

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SUPERFUND, TOXICS

AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH, 

Newark, NJ. 

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