From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:20:50 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: TCE Litigation at Brookhaven National Laboratory (NY) |
Workers at Big Government Lab Sue Over Exposure to a Toxic Chemical By Hiroko Tabuchi New York TImes August 22, 2019 UPTON, N.Y. — As a technician at Brookhaven National Laboratory, one of the nation’s most prestigious science labs, Joseph Marino’s job in the late 1990s and early 2000s was to clean and maintain the supercomputers that have helped researchers unlock some of the world’s biggest scientific and medical mysteries. He polished copper connectors, he said, until “they reminded you of gold.” One of the cleaning fluids he used while wiping the machines by hand over the years was trichloroethylene, or TCE, a toxic degreaser that the Trump administration has targeted as part of its broad effort to weaken regulations on chemicals. TCE is still widely used by dry cleaners as a stain remover and by factories as a degreaser. Mr. Marino, who later lost a kidney to cancer, is now suing the operators of the Department of Energy lab for $25 million over exposure to TCE, alleging that they negligently supplied the cleaner to him and many other workers there without warnings or protections. He is also suing Dow Chemical and Zep, alleging that they made and sold the chemical without adequate safety warnings. … For the entire article, see https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/climate/tce-exposure-lawsuits-brookhaven.html -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director Center for Public Environmental Oversight A project of the Pacific Studies Center LSiegel@cpeo.org P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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