[CPEO-MEF] Camp Lejeune (NC) hearings

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Panel Puts Scrutiny Marine Camp's Water

By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press
San Francisco Chronicle
June 12, 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) --

Marine families who lived at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina over three 
decades drank water contaminated with toxins as much as 40 times over 
today's safety standard, federal health investigators said Tuesday.

The government disclosed results from a new scientific study on the same 
day that some families testified for Congress about cancers and other 
illnesses they blame on drinking tainted tap water at the sprawling 
training and deployment base.

The House Energy and Commerce panel, which held the hearing, described 
the sickened Marines as "poisoned patriots."

At least 850 former residents of the base have filed administrative 
claims, seeking nearly $4 billion, for exposure to the industrial 
solvents TCE and PCE that contaminated Camp Lejeune's drinking wells 
before 1987.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/12/national/w124807D71.DTL&type=politics


For PDF and webcast testimony, go to 
http://energycommerce.house.gov/cmte_mtgs/110-oi-hrg.061207.camp.lejeune.shtml

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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