[CPEO-BIF] Norco (CA) schools and vinyl chloride

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Corona-Norco school materials tests carry broad implications
 	

By PAIGE AUSTIN and SHIRIN PARSAVAND
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
March 19, 2007

State and Corona-Norco school board officials will meet today to discuss 
plans for testing two local schools for a cancer-causing chemical that 
might be gassing from building materials inside the schools.

The testing process is fairly simple. It's the findings that could carry 
major implications for schools and students everywhere. If the two 
schools -- Corona High and El Cerrito Middle -- test positive for vinyl 
chloride in the air, possibly from vinyl carpet or tile, it could mean 
that countless new schools around the nation have the same health problem.

In Norco, the issue is fraught with layers of emotion, history and legal 
tensions.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_C_cwyle20.41bfc1e.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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