REVIVED BIOMONITORING BILLS MAY GET BOOST BY HURRICANE RECOVERY PUSH

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House and Senate that would establish a health-effects tracking network for first responders, including controversial biomonitoring measures, could get a boost from congressional efforts to respond to the Gulf Coast recovery, as well as recent heightened concerns about the federal government's lax assessment of emergency worker health threats following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to proponents of the bills. The legislation is a reintroduction of a bill that was unanimously approved by the Senate two...