[CPEO-BIF] CTS Stifles Help for Asheville Residents

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superfund site gives UNCA profs lesson in politics

by Tonya Maxwell
Asheville Citizen-Times.com
May 6, 2015

On a chilly, misty morning last month, a class of 14 UNC Asheville students collected water samples from the contaminated land near a former manufacturing plant, joining more than 200 other young people who over the years have studied these same grounds.

For UNCA professors Jeff Wilcox and Sally Wasileski, the work has been done in the name of science education as students in water and chemistry classes learn about groundwater movement and pollution.

For Indiana-based CTS attorneys, the professors have been a little too meddlesome, setting up a dispute that began with a cease and desist order and was punctuated with a complaint to a state licensing board.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2015/05/05/superfund-site-gives-unca-profs-lesson-politics/26934603/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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