[CPEO-BIF] Acreage Residents vs. Pratt & Whitney, Palm Beach, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Acreage Residents Move Forward With Lawsuit Over Cancer Cluster and  
Soil Contamination


By Kyle Swenson
New Times Broward-Palm Beach (FL)
October 20, 2014

Cancer clusters -- hot zones of highly contaminated turf that see a  
spike in disease -- are incredibly hard cases to win in court. Not  
only do they take years of legal battle and involve a lot of high-end  
science but usually such cases pit homeowners against corporations  
with boatloads of money to burn on endless litigation. In rural Palm  
Beach, a battle between residents of an unincorporated patch of the  
county and a defense contractor has shaped up along those David- 
versus-Goliath lines.

When you plunge into the figures involved in the number of cancer  
cases in the Acreage, it's truly disturbing. The Nation recently  
pried the lid off the situation with a thorough investigation this  
month on the rates of kids coming down with cancer in the area.

...

For awhile, some residents have pointed an accusing finger at a  
massive 7,000-acre campus of engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney. The  
facility sits on the same aquifer as the residential area. The  
company, which has $10 billion in defense contracts and millions in  
tax breaks from the State of Florida, has possibly been linked to a  
number of top-secret projects that used dangerous materials such as  
liquid hydrogen and radioactive elements.

...

For the entire article, see
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2014/10/ 
acreage_residents_move_forward_with_lawsuit_over_cancer_cluster_and_soil 
_contamination.php

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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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