[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey schools

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Corzine asked to prevent schools from being built atop pollution

by Dunstan McNichol
Newark Star-Ledger (NJ)
June 25, 2008

Enviromentalists and community activists today called on Gov. Jon 
Corzine to order studies to ensure New Jersey schools will not be 
erected on dangerously polluted properties.

"You should not allow a situation to occur where your children are in 
jeopardy," said Algernon Ward, a Trenton activist who led the campaign 
to tear down a partially built elementary school that was built atop 
contaminated fill, at today's Statehouse press conference. "It's a tragedy."

Demolishing and rebuilding the Martin Luther King Elementary School in 
Trenton has cost the state's school construction program about $27 million.

Participants in today's press conference said it is among hundreds of 
millions of dollars in school funds that have been spent because of 
pollution on the school sites chosen by the state's $8.6 billion school 
building program.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/06/critics_demand_corzine_take_st.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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