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Artificial Turf: Worth the Risk?
Are perfect playing fields really worth the potential risk to
human health and the environment?
NEW:
WEC Fact Sheet on artificial turf
Environmental Justice Activists Challenge Toxic Schools
Environmental justice activists asked Governor Jon Corzine at
a June 25th
press conference to issue an executive order to address what
they called the “toxic schools crisis” in New Jersey.
WHISTLEBLOWER WINS
In May, a Camden County Superior
Court jury ruled in favor of worker rights.
DUPONT TESTS CONFIRM PFOA CONTAMINATION
Following an
agreement made between DuPont and NJ DEP that requires the
company to periodically test for PFOA and report the results,
the company disclosed last month that eight of nine monitoring
wells on the edges of DuPont’s Chambers Works plant in
Deepwater, Salem County, exceed the current DEP “alert level”
of 0.04 ppb.
NEWS
AND NOTES
On June 21, 2008,
the US Supreme Court rejected an appeal from W.R. Grace and
Company in a criminal case over the company’s alleged release
of asbestos from a Montana mine.
Calendar
Monday, July
14, 10 am,
Coalition for
Healthy Ports meeting, Rutgers
Labor Education Center, New Brunswick. Call Valorie Caffee at
(609) 695-7100 for more details.
Saturday & Sunday, August 16 & 17,
11 am - 7 pm, 33rd
Annual Clearwater Festival,
Sunset Park, Asbury Park. Go to
www.mcclearwater.org
for more information.
Tuesday, September 16,
Cancer and the Environment -Industrial and
Manufacturing Exposures,
Hilton Hotel, East Brunswick hosted by the National Cancer
Institute. Details in our next issue. |
