[CPEO-BIF] TCE - "Different responses in Tier, E. Fishkill stir up debate"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Different responses in Tier, E. Fishkill stir up debate

BY TOM WILBER
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
February 20, 2005

The state is setting a dangerous precedent by allowing Southern Tier
residents to be exposed to concentrations of toxic pollution nearly 14
times greater than what the federal government is allowing in East
Fishkill homes, advocates said last week. 

Polluted neighborhoods in Endicott and Hillcrest are at the center of a
growing national debate about trichloroethylene, or TCE, pushing into
homes through a process called vapor intrusion. 

How much is too much? 

"TCE in your house just plain ol' doesn't belong there," said Bruce
Oldfield, a resident of Hillcrest. The state is testing more than 50
houses there for gases from a subterranean plume of the chemical coming
from nearby industry. 


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For the entire article,
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne022005s149599.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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