Massachusetts Will Not Share List of 200 TCE Sites
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality (MDEP) has declined an open records request for public disclosure of the list of approximately 200 TCE-contaminated sites that the state is planning to revisit to determine whether indoor air poses a risk of cardiac birth defects through vapor intrusion, which occurs when below ground pollution rises into indoor air. The internal review, which is expected to take years to complete, was announced earlier this year at a public meeting hosted by MDEP on January 28.