[CPEO-BIF] "As year starts, district and EPA say Malibu [CA]schools are safe"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

As year starts, district and EPA say Malibu schools are safe

BY JOANNA CLAY
Los Angeles Register (CA)
August 18, 2014

After months of investigations into toxic contamination at Malibu  
public schools, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District says it's  
safe for students and staff to return to school today.

The federal government backs the assertion.

But teachers might observe some empty chairs. Malibu parents - at  
least 25 - didn’t want their children to return to Malibu schools  
this year due to PCBs found in five classrooms at Malibu High, a  
Malibu Unites survey said.

PCBs - polychlorinated biphenyls - were used in caulk from the 1950s  
until the federal government banned them in 1979. The chemical can  
cause cancer and affect the immune system, nervous system,  
reproduction and the endocrine system, among others.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.losangelesregister.com/articles/district-603587-malibu- 
school.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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