[CPEO-BIF] Chemtura site, Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Brooklyn Park Poses Health Risk as Chemtura Fights PCB Cleanup

By Tiffany Kary (Bloomberg)
Business Week
May 7, 2010

The grassy fields of a park in the gentrifying Red Hook section of 
Brooklyn are contaminated with PCBs at a level 110 times what New York 
environmental agencies consider safe, according to court records filed 
in a lawsuit against bankrupt Chemtura Corp.

Linked to liver cancer, low birth-weight and loss of motor skills, PCBs 
pose a threat to park visitors and nearby residents, said Judith 
Schreiber, chief scientist in the state attorney general's environmental 
bureau. State and city health and environmental agencies declined to 
comment or said they aren't aware of the risks at the 58-acre park, a 
popular spot for soccer games and family picnics. Chemtura has resisted 
demands by the state environmental bureau that it clean up contamination 
from a leak at its plant, which abuts the park.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-05-07/brooklyn-park-poses-health-risk-as-chemtura-fights-pcb-cleanup.html


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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