[CPEO-MEF] WATER: Camp Lejeune (NC) benzene

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Fed probe urged on cancer chemical in Marine water

By KEVIN MAURER
Associated Press Writer
February 18, 2010

A North Carolina congressman said Thursday that he wants an 
investigation into reports that levels of a cancer-causing chemical in 
tap water at a Marine Corps base were downplayed and then omitted from 
official documents.

Democratic Rep. Brad Miller called for the probe by his House science 
subcommittee Thursday — a day after The Associated Press reported on new 
documents that indicate massive fuel leaks at Camp Lejeune and high 
concentrations of benzene found in a water well there in 1984.

"I am just disbelieving of their failure to act. It may have been worse 
than a failure to act. They may have acted to minimize or prevent the 
risk from being disclosed," Miller told the Associated Press on 
Thursday. "It is hard to imagine they would let this go on. There was 
too much information that they had to have consciously disregarded."

...

For the entire article, see
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TOXIC_TAP_WATER?SITE=CACRU&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

See also http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35445439/ns/health-cancer

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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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