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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, April 7, 2000, 12:00 p.m. EDT

Contact: Bill Grigg, NIEHS
(301) 402-3378

Links and Ideas for Earth Day, April 22, 2000

Story ideas:
See - Journal Publishes Experts' Call for Health Protection from Global Warming.

New Publications:
See: Family Guide--20 Easy Steps to Personal Environmental Health Now. For a rhyming teen version - see Read the Label Mabel .

Environmental health and science on the Web:

For authentic information on environmental health issues, your readers can reach the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (a part of the National Institutes of Health) and the National Toxicology Program (NTP).

The NIEHS also has a Kid's Site.

News features from the NIEHS' journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Open House:
Tour of laboratories, with employees giving out dogwood seedlings - since plants help clean the air and provide shade from solar radiation - at 1 p.m., April 20, in Research Triangle Park, N.C. (For details, call Tom Hawkins, (919) 541-1402). Maps to the main campus are available on the web.

NIEHS supports research to understand the effects of the environment on human health and is part of NIH. For more information on environmental health topics, visit http://www.niehs.nih.gov (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/index.cfm) . Subscribe to one or more of the NIEHS news lists ( http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newslist/index.cfm (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsroom/newslist/index.cfm) ) to stay current on NIEHS news, press releases, grant opportunities, training, events, and publications.

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