[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH, VOCs: Camp Lejeune (NC) book

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

A Trust Betrayed

by Michael Magner
2014

A Trust Betrayed: The Untold Story of Camp Lejeune and the Poisoning  
of Generations of Marines and Their Families (Merloyd Lawrence Books/ 
Da Capo Press - a member of the Perseus Books Group) provides the  
first comprehensive reporting on a story that began in 1941 when the  
Marine Corps opened a base on the Atlantic shores to practice beach  
landings for World War II. For the next 40 years, the Marines dumped  
toxic wastes at numerous locations around the sprawling installation  
that ended up seeping into the groundwater that provided the base  
water supplies.

It wasn’t until the 1980s that wells containing industrial-strength  
solvents, benzene from spilled fuel and other hazardous chemicals  
were tested and taken offline. By that time, harm had been done to  
many base residents, especially babies exposed to the pollution in  
the womb, without them ever realizing it. When a federal health study  
in 1997 estimated that more than 100 children born at Camp Lejeune  
suffered from cancer or birth defects, victims of the contamination  
began to demand a full accounting. Seventeen years later, after much  
stonewalling and obfuscation by the Marine Corps and the Department  
of the Navy, health studies are continuing, lawsuits are advancing,  
and many affected parties are still awaiting compensation from the  
government.

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For reviews and ordering information, go to
http://www.atrustbetrayed.com/


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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
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