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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A Toxic Legacy


BY BEVERLY FORD/NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Attleboro Sun Chronicle (MA)
August 26, 2012

More than 100 million taxpayer dollars have been spent over the past  
two decades to clean up a toxic mix of chemicals that has  
contaminated land, tainted waterways and imperiled the health of  
residents throughout Massachusetts.

Yet despite that costly undertaking, thousands of contaminated sites  
remain, a blight of useless land and abandoned buildings in cities  
and towns across the region, the New England Center for Investigative  
Reporting has found.

The state Department of Environmental Protection has identified about  
40,000 contaminated sites in Massachusetts since 1993. About 30,000  
of those properties have undergone some form of cleanup, the agency  
said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/news/local_news/a-toxic-legacy/ 
article_85ff8479-7e73-5395-ade0-59cbcc7eb32f.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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