[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) water data

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Congress pushes military to release data on Camp Lejeune water

By BARBARA BARRETT
McClatchy Newspapers/Miami Herald
May 28, 2010

Angered by what they consider the military's reticence to reveal all it 
knows about decades of water contamination on a North Carolina Marine 
base, lawmakers want to force the Marine Corps and the Navy to produce 
an inventory of all the documentation scientists need to understand the 
contamination.

Senators and members of the House of Representatives have inserted 
language into the 2011 defense authorization bill that would require 
Defense Secretary Robert Gates to certify that the military has done so.

More than a million people are thought to have been exposed to the 
contaminated water from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. Some 156,000 
people from all 50 states have registered with the Marines to get 
information on the contamination, which many say has caused a variety of 
cancers and other ailments.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/28/1653371/congress-pushes-military-to-release.html

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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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