[CPEO-BIF] New Jersey school pesticide pollution

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

N.J. bill prompted by discovery of contaminated soil at Paramus school 
advances

BY JOHN REITMEYER
Northjersey.com
November 30, 2009

New Jersey school officials would be required to notify parents whenever 
pesticide pollution is detected on school grounds under a bill that 
cleared a state Assembly committee on Monday.

The bill's sponsors said the legislation was drafted as a response to 
the way officials handled the discovery of contaminated soil at West 
Brook Middle School in Paramus in early 2007.

School officials knew of pesticides at levels 39 times state safety 
standards as early as January 2007, but parents and teachers first 
learned of the contamination in May 2007 when an article appeared in The 
Record.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/113009_NJ_bill_prompted_by_discovery_of_contaminated_soil_at_Paramus_school_advances.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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