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[[DuPont]], [http://www.groundup.org/dupont/pp.htm one of the world's worst polluters], hired M&R Strategic Services in the U.S. Ross's PR firm <A HREF="http://www.mrss.com/f_client.html" target="_blank">M&R does business with dozens of major health and environmental non-profits</A>, many of them funded by the individuals and foundations he advises. Recently In 2002 M&R sent an urgent appeal to groups asking them to sign a joint letter to President Bush calling for "a major national initiative to end childhood lead poisoning." However, M&R's appeal failed to reveal that M&R works for DuPont, <A HREF="http://www.aeclp.org/" target="_blank">a company now named with others in forty-five government lawsuits</A> to hold them accountable for <A HREF="http://www.sueleadindustry.homestead.com/" target="_blank">contamination of U.S. housing with lead paint</A>. Advocacy groups including the <A HREF="[http://www.afhhaeclp.org/aboutus][http://about_us_mainwww.sueleadindustry.homestead.htm" target=_blank">com/] Advocacy groups including the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning</a> have rebuffed M&R and its client DuPont saying "their recommendations to the President are incomplete and out of balance." These [http://www.afhh.org/aboutus/about_us_main.htm] The groups are now circulating circulated their own letter to the White House.