[CPEO-BIF] "Toxic chemical problems that forced evacuations in Milwaukee [Wisconsin] reflect massive national problem"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic chemical problems that forced evacuations in Milwaukee reflect massive national problem

by Yash Roy and Sophia Vento
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI)
August 16, 2023

For Tonya Hill, an early morning door knock from a Milwaukee health official was the first time she had heard of the toxic carcinogen trichloroethylene, or TCE. 

Now, Hill is one of more than 250 residents evacuated from two Milwaukee-area apartment complexes due to unsafe levels of toxins lingering from the sites' industrial legacy.

...

While the evacuations that have taken place this year are unprecedented for the state, residents of Community within the Corridor in Milwaukee and Lydell Apartments in Glendale are only a sliver of the tens of millions of Americans who have been poisoned from TCE contamination. 

…

For the entire article, see
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2023/08/16/heads-in-the-sand-scientists-environmentalists-sound-alarm-on-toxic-chemical-after-milwaukee-evacuat/70566294007/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
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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