[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: "Government straddles both sides" at Camp Lejeune (NC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Government straddles both sides in toxic water cases
Obama administration offers health care to veterans injured by water  
contamination at Marine base, but it wants to block their legal claims

by Richard Wolf
USA TODAY
March 1, 2014


WASHINGTON - President Obama signed a law in 2012 offering health  
benefits to thousands of former Marines and their families who were  
exposed decades ago to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune in North  
Carolina.

But in a related case headed to the Supreme Court in April that could  
bolster or block their claims for damages, Obama's Justice Department  
has argued that the clock has run out.

The little-noticed case could have profound implications for victims  
of hidden contamination at Camp Lejeune and other former industrial  
sites in states that set deadlines on damage claims. Those lawsuits  
generally involve "enormous financial stakes - typically in the  
millions of dollars," according to a petition filed by the  
electronics manufacturer at the center of the high court case

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/01/obama- 
environment-veterans-water-contamination-supreme-court/5426147/

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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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