[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Troops exposed to Hexavalent Chromium in Iraq

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pentagon to investigate troops exposure to hexavalent chromium in Iraq

By Julie Sullivan
The Oregonian
September 29, 2009,

The Pentagon's inspector general is investigating whether the Army 
mishandled troops exposed to a cancer-causing chemical in Iraq in 2003.

The review comes after seven Senate Democrats charged that the Army and 
war contractor Kellogg, Brown & Root may have exposed hundreds of 
soldiers to dangerous levels of hexavalent chromium while they guarded 
civilian workers at a water treatment plant. Among the troops exposed 
are at least 292 Oregon Army National Guard soldiers, including 16 who 
say they were sickened by the contact.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said in a statement Tuesday that the 
oversight hearings he led as recently as last month revealed "repeated 
and almost unbelievable failures by both the contractor, KBR, and the 
Army to take the needed steps to protect and even to inform soldiers and 
workers."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/09/post_10.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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