[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: VA rules for another Camp Lejeune (NC) vet

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Thomas McLaughlin of Hampden got cancer from exposure to contaminated 
drinking water while in Marines, VA rules


Patrick Johnson
Springfield Republican (MA)
June 12, 2010



The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs recently ruled in favor of a 
Hampden resident's claim that his kidney cancer resulted from exposure 
to contaminated drinking water more than 40 years ago while stationed 
with the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, N.C.

The ruling makes Thomas McLaughlin, 68, a self-employed plumbing 
contractor, among just a handful of people so far to be compensated for 
illness due to exposure to known carcinogens in the base water supply.

...

The Boston regional office of the Department of Veterans Affairs in 
March ruled McLaughlin's exposure during two separate deployments to the 
base in the late 1950s and early 1960s "more likely than not caused your 
kidney cancer."

...


For the entire article, see
http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/thomas_mclaughlin_of_hampden_g.html

For a similar story a month ago, see
http://www.cpeo.org/lists/military/2010/msg00197.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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