[CPEO-MEF] Beryllium safety issues in Tucson (AZ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Brush Up

A local lawmaker shows she's not afraid of a little beryllium

By CHRIS LIMBERIS
Tucson Weekly
March 17, 2005

Brush Ceramic Products, where beryllium oxide has permanently injured 
dozens of employees, led to the deaths of others and may threaten 
neighborhood schools, is retooling its message in hopes of projecting an 
image as a cautious and caring southside partner.

The spin was given full display last week at a study session of the 
Sunnyside Unified School District governing board, which was slapped 
with the cold reality that beryllium was found a half-mile from Brush 
Ceramic Products in the Sunnyside High School administration building.

The Brush Ceramic video and its corporate boasting of new involvement in 
the southside community--from participating in a neighborhood 
association cleanup to joining an annual Christmas bicycle benefit for 
children in need--also came as scrapers and graders shift the earth 
north of the plant for 596 homes.

There was no louder champion for Brush Ceramic Products than Linda 
Lopez, the Sunnyside School Board member and Democratic member of the 
state House of Representatives.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:66769
--
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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