[CPEO-BIF] Toxic Gas Hazards

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Sunday, January 6, 2002 Denver Post published a collection of
articles about the hazards of toxic gases being emitted at industrial
pollution sites. The following three paragraphs are the summaries from
the newspaper's web site.


Unseen by its victims, unaddressed by many government regulators, toxic
gases from industrial sites threaten the health of thousands of
Americans. This three-part series shows why and how this has happened.
Today Chemical vapors are seeping into homes, causing sickness. Federal
officials are aware of the problem but have done little about it. Monday
The computer model widely used to predict levels of toxic fumes in homes
is often inaccurate. story summaries 

EPA errs in dropping toxic-gas probe. The top federal environmental
agency, using false information, dropped an investigation last year into
whether it ignored health risks from toxic gases. Even the Environmental
Protection Agency managers who would have been targets of the audit said
the agency's inspector general relied on erroneous evidence to justify
abandoning the review. 

Home deadly home: Toxins in air More than 4,900 people in a five-state
federal study suffered strokes, anemia and urinary tract disorders,
including prostate trouble, at rates double or triple the national
average. All these people lived in homes polluted with toxic gas.


To access the articles, go to:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,11419,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 222B View St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
lsiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org