[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, BERYLLIUM: Senator wants Kansas City (MO) plant study

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bond calls for new study on toxins at KC defense plant

By MARK MORRIS
Kansas City Star
February 3, 2010

U.S. Sen. Kit Bond on Wednesday called for a new federal investigation 
of health concerns at a sensitive Kansas City defense plant.

In a letter to a federal investigator, Bond noted that he was responding 
to reports on KSHB-TV that more than 100 former co-workers at the 
federal complex on Bannister Road fear their illnesses may be linked to 
toxins at the facility.

Bond asked the inspector general for the General Services 
Administration, which acts as the federal government's landlord, to 
advise him on "the full extent of the problem and what steps GSA is 
taking to protect employees deemed at risk."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/1726196.html

--


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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org