[CPEO-MEF] North Carolina "Lawmakers rush bill to protect Lejeune, Asheville residents in pollution cases"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lawmakers rush bill to protect Lejeune, Asheville residents in  
pollution cases

By Craig Jarvis
Charlotte News & Observer (NC)
June 14, 2014

State lawmakers are rushing through a bill that would counter a U.S.  
Supreme Court ruling last week that potentially hobbled groundwater  
contamination lawsuits by families at Camp Lejeune and in an  
Asheville neighborhood.

The bill would eliminate the state prohibition on lawsuits being  
filed 10 years after the last pollution occurred or from the time a  
polluted property was sold. Sometimes people don’t know they have  
been exposed to potentially deadly pollution until much later.

The legislation is aimed at rescuing the families affected by  
pollution in those two areas of the state but would apply anywhere in  
North Carolina.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/06/14/3936198/lawmakers-rush-bill-to- 
protect.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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