[CPEO-BIF] Coakley Landfill, North Hampton, New Hampshire

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State, EPA Differ on Public Health Risk from Seacoast Superfund Site 

By JASON MOON 
New Hampshire Public Radio
October 10, 2017

Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency said the Coakley Landfill, a superfund site in North Hampton, does not currently pose an unacceptable risk to human health.

That message came as a surprise to some members of a task force charged with investigating a cancer cluster on the Seacoast. They have been arguing for months that the EPA needs to be more proactive in addressing contamination at the site.

NHPR’s Seacoast Reporter Jason Moon recently sat down with All Things Considered host Sally Hirsh-Dickinson to talk more about this.

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For the entire article, see
http://nhpr.org/post/state-epa-differ-public-health-risk-seacoast-superfund-site#stream/0

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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