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A Minnesota advocacy group reports that the State loses well over a billion dollars a year by having to fund medical and social programs to deal with an increase in childhood diseases caused by toxic pollution. 
 
Eliminating problems such as lead paint in old homes and soil, mercury in fish and toxic chemicals just about everywhere, would pay for itself financially and in human terms. 
 
Diseases such as asthma and cancer may be triggered or made worse by environmental elements, and mercury and lead are known to cause neurological and learning problems.

Diseases caused by pollution cost state

Duluth News Tribune - 6/29/2006 4:09 AM

Childhood diseases spurred by environmental pollution cost Minnesota nearly $1.6 billion each year, according to a Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy report to be released today.
 
According to the report, preventable toxic pollution is causing increased asthma, cancer, birth defects and learning disorders in Minnesota children, and residents pay the price through increased social programs and medical care
 
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