Community Advisory Group "prepares for Wyle offensive"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Group prepares for Wyle offensive

CONSULTATIONS: A law firm and ex-EPA official will talk to those who
have health concerns.

By PAIGE AUSTIN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
August 7, 2004

The Wyle Labs Community Advisory Group is going on the offensive with a
meeting Monday night to introduce attorneys to neighbors of the
hazardous-testing complex and to discuss health issues that regulators
have sidestepped, a group leader said Friday. 

The group was set up to facilitate communication between the Norco
community and state officials overseeing the cleanup of hazardous waste
at Wyle. Because state officials are limited to investigating current
pollution and health threats, residents have grown increasingly
frustrated in their attempts to find out if pollution from Wyle has
threatened public health over the past 47 years, said Jeane Guertin,
chairwoman of the group. 

That frustration prompted the group to invite speakers from Heiting and
Irwin, a Riverside law firm representing dozens of Wyle neighbors who
say their health and property have been damaged by the pollution. The
group will also have a former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
senior science adviser offer tips on lobbying the EPA to list Wyle as a
Superfund site. 

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for the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_cwyle07.a0f09.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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