[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: ATSDR Questions Marines' Lejeune booklet

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Military, health agency in PR war over base's tainted water

Barbara Barrett
McClatchy Newspapers
January 31, 2011

WASHINGTON - Congressional investigators will meet with Navy officials 
as soon as next week to pressure the military to reconsider a public 
relations booklet on past water contamination at Marines Base Camp 
Lejeune, N.C., that they say is misleading.

The booklet contains inaccurate information and could hurt scientists' 
efforts to survey thousands of former Lejeune residents and their family 
members about their health, according to the Agency for Toxic Substances 
and Disease Registry, an arm of the federal Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention in Atlanta.

Thomas Sinks, deputy director of ATSDR, asked the Marines Corps two 
weeks ago to retract the booklet and pull it off a military website 
dedicated to disseminating public information about the contamination.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/01/31/107811/military-health-agency-in-pr-war.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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