[CPEO-BIF] Hinchey Blasts NY State Department of Health

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Office of Congressman Maurice Hinchey
For Immediate Release
February 15, 2006
	
Hinchey Blasts New York State Dept. of Health For Inaction On TCE

Says Agency's Failure To Act Is "Mind-Boggling";
Calls For Immediate Steps To Save Lives Of State Residents
	
	
Endicott, NY - Frustrated by the New York State Department of Health's 
(NYSDOH) failure to revise air safety guidelines to protect state 
residents from trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination, Congressman 
Maurice Hinchey (D-NY) today blasted the agency's commissioner for her 
inaction.  In a letter to NYSDOH Commissioner Antonia Novello, Hinchey 
said the agency's failure to act on TCE contamination "has been nothing 
short of mind-boggling."

"Thousands of people across New York State are suffering as a result of 
the failure of the Department of Health to be more realistic and 
reasonable concerning the amounts of poisonous gas they are compelled to 
breath in their homes," Hinchey wrote to Novello.  "Your refusal to 
revise the air guideline for trichloroethylene (TCE) laden air in 
domestic circumstances is the major case in point.  And this refusal is 
even more inexplicable in the context of the extensive scientific 
research and resulting compelling evidence of the toxic nature of this 
airborne contaminant."

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For the entire press release and letter, go to
http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny22_hinchey/morenews/021506tceletter.html

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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
http://www.cpeo.org
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