Reporting Team Wins Polk Award for Bpa Series Stories 'Reverberated From the Halls of Congress'
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › February 22, 2009
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Journal Sentinel reporters Susanne Rust and Meg Kissinger have won a George Polk Award -- one of journalism's highest honors -- for doing work long neglected by federal regulators: They stepped in to alert the public of ill health effects caused by exposure to chemicals commonly found in American homes.
No other Wisconsin newspaper or broadcast station has won a Polk in the 60-year history of the award.The reporters' 2008 series, Chemical Fallout, "castigated the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration for failing to monitor, regulate and ultimately ban potential toxins found in everyday materials, from 'microwave safe' plastics to baby bottles," the Polk awards committee said in a statement.See the full content of this document
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Reporting Team Wins Polk Award for Bpa Series Stories 'Reverberated From the Halls of Congress'
"Their reports about chemicals such as bisphenol A, or BPA, which causes neurological and developmental damage in laboratory animals, reverberated from the halls of Congress to homes and schools across America."
Rust and Kissinger will join other winners at the 60th annual George Polk Awards luncheon o...See the full content of this document
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