[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: House passes Janey Ensminger act for Camp Lejeune (NC) Marines

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

House Approves Bill to Help Sick Families of NC Military Base Water  
Contamination

By LAUREN EFFRON , KATIE HINMAN and ALYSSA LITOFF
ABC Nightline
August 1, 2012

Five weeks after "Nightline" reported on the decades-long attempt to  
secure health benefits for Marines and their families sickened by  
contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune, residents are finally  
getting the help they need, 30 years later.

The House of Representatives approved the Janey Ensminger Act on  
Tuesday, which will provide health care to those who lived or worked  
at the North Carolina military base for at least 30 days from 1957 to  
1987. The bill now heads to President Barack Obama's desk for his  
signature.

Health officials believe that as many as one million people may have  
been exposed in what may be the site of the largest water  
contamination in American history. Many Marines and their families  
who drank water laced with cancer-causing chemicals have died and  
others are still getting sick today.

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For the entire story, see
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/house-approves-bill-sick-families-nc- 
military-base/story?id=16905789

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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
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