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Old 11-20-2008, 07:16 PM
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Default Biomass Plant Might Exacerbate High Infant Mortality Rate

A "biomass plant should not be built" in Leon County, Fla., Edward Holifield, a retired Tallahassee physician writes in a Tallahassee Democrat opinion piece. The Florida Department of Health has "documented conclusively that black infants in Leon County are dying at Third World levels" and "the environmental poisons in Leon County are concentrated on the south side of town, which houses the greatest concentration of the blacks and the poor," Holifield writes.


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