[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: Wurtsmith Air Force Base veterans

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Veterans who drank poison in Oscoda are getting a second look

By Garret Ellison
MLive (MI)
September 20, 2017


OSCODA, MI - The federal government is reopening a 16-year-old health report on the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda at the urging of legislators and veterans seeking coverage for illnesses they contend were caused by exposure to toxic chemicals.

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) says it will update the 2001 public health assessment for Wurtsmith, a Strategic Air Command nuclear B-52 bomber base in northeast Michigan which closed in 1993 at the end of the Cold War.

The ATSDR, an independent agency under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services which operates jointly with the Centers for Disease Control, will reassess past exposure in base drinking water to trichloroethylene (TCE), a cancer-causing industrial solvent found at astonishing levels in base drinking water in the late 1970s.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2017/09/wurtsmith_tce_atsdr.html

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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