[CPEO-MEF] Camp Lejeune (NC) notification legislation

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Measure would find victims of Lejeune water problems

From staff reports
News & Observer (NC)
September 26, 2007

The U.S. Senate has passed a measure requiring the government to notify 
residents who may have been exposed to contaminated water at the Camp 
Lejeune Marine base in Jacksonville, Sen. Elizabeth Dole announced today.

A federal agency found that children exposed to drinking water there 
before contaminated wells were closed in 1989 developed leukemia, other 
cancers and birth defects such as spina bifida, Dole's office said in a 
news release. As many as a million people may have been exposed to the 
water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/716944.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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