[CPEO-BIF] Massachusetts "Investigating Toxic Chemical At Needham Luxury Apartment Building"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

State Investigating Toxic Chemical At Needham Luxury Apartment Building

By Cheryl Fiandaca
WBZ TV-4 CBS News (Boston, MA)
July 8, 2021

NEEDHAM (CBS) – A luxury building with a sparkling pool, modern design and a fitness center, The Kendrick was the perfect home for a young professional and his pregnant wife. “We were looking for a place to at least start our family,” he said asking us not to reveal his identity.

But last week that all abruptly changed when officials from the State Department of Environmental Protection told him air samples taken in his unit showed high levels of the toxic gas trichloroethylene, also known as TCE. “I said this has to be a joke and the representative from the State Department of Environmental Protection said ‘This is not a joke, sir. This is extremely serious.’” 

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For the entire story, see
https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/07/08/iteam-the-kendrick-needham-apartment-building-toxic-gas-tce/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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