[CPEO-BIF] McCullom Lake, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

What killed Frank Branham?

By David S. Martin
CNN
September 14, 2010

When Joanne Branham lost her husband, Frank, to a brain tumor, she was 
devastated. But it wasn't until she visited her old neighbors in 
McCullom Lake, Illinois, that she began to question the cause of his death.

...

Since then, more brain cancer cases have turned up, 30 in all, among 
current and former residents of McCullom Lake, a community of about 
1,000 residents in northern Illinois, not far from the Wisconsin state line.

Branham and others in McCullom Lakeare now pointing the finger at a 
chemical plant a mile up the road in Ringwood, Illinois.

For decades, they say, the Rohm and Haas plant dumped, spilled and 
leaked thousands of pounds of vinyl chloride and other toxic chemicals, 
poisoning the water and air around McCullom Lake.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/09/14/mccullom.lake.cancer.cluster/?hpt=C2

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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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