[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) study funded

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy agrees to fund toxic water study at NC base

The Associated Press
Washington Post
February 19, 2010

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- The Navy has agreed after months of fighting to fund 
a study into the health effects of past water pollution at Camp Lejeune 
on Marines.

The Department of the Navy said in a letter Thursday to the federal 
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry that it will pay more 
than $1.5 million for the work. The study will look at whether there are 
higher mortality rates for Marines who served at the base during the 
years the water was contaminated.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/19/AR2010021902337.html

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Lenny Siegel
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