[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, HEALTH: "Wurtsmith [Air Force] base [MI] water may have caused veteran cancers"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wurtsmith base water may have caused veteran cancers

By Garret Ellison
MLive (MI)
August 7, 2018

OSCODA, MI -- Drinking water laced with high levels of poisonous chemicals may be to blame for cancer and other chronic disease among veterans and families who lived at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in northern Michigan, according to a new federal health report draft.

That conclusion, reached in July by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), sets the table for Congress to consider legislation that would force the Department of Veterans Affairs to extend health benefits to base veterans without making them somehow prove their illnesses are linked to chemical exposure.

No bill has yet been introduced, although U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Flint, says he's working on legislation similar to that which forced the VA to cover similar health claims at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where drinking water was contaminated with chlorinated solvents.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/08/wurtsmith_pha_update.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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