[CPEO-BIF] Moraine, Ohio GM plant neighbors

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

$770M trust without funds for polluted neighbors
Moraine residents criticize response to carcinogenic vapors.

By Lawrence Budd
Dayton Daily News (OH)
March 18, 2012

A $773 million trust created to find new owners for polluted former  
GM plants in 14 states, including a 460-acre complex in Moraine, does  
not provide any funding to buy contaminated homes or compensate  
victims of the pollution.

Residents who live across the street from the former GM plant in  
Moraine have hired an attorney to address their worries about the  
response to the discovery of carcinogenic vapors in their homes.

Revitalizing Auto Communities Environmental Response, or RACER, is an  
environmental response trust formed out of the GM bankruptcy. It is  
designed to find buyers for more than 60 former plant properties -  
before cleaning up pollution blamed for environmental hazards such as  
carcinogenic vapors found in homes in Moraine.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/-770m-trust-without- 
funds-for-polluted-neighbors--1345626.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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