[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: ATSDR at Kelly Air Force Base (TX)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Time is on their side

San Antonio Current (TX)
March 18, 2009


For years now, residents of the Toxic Triangle spawned by the former 
Kelly Air Force Base operations have worried that the federal agency 
charged with investigating the neighborhood's liver, kidney, and 
leukemia cancer clusters has been willfully shortsighted, seeking 
answers everywhere (e.g. corn tortillas) but in the most obvious 
culprit: the 5-mile-plus plume of carcinogens such as TCE and PCE that 
flows under some 20,000 homes and businesses.

And, now, it appears, Congress is worried, too. In a report that cites 
Kelly as one of 10 egregious examples, the House Science and Technology 
Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee concludes that the Agency for 
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry "often obscures or overlooks 
potential health hazards, uses inadequate analysis, and fails to zero in 
on toxic culprits."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sacurrent.com/news/story.asp?id=69953

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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