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Chemist: Residents near sinkhole already reporting respiratory problems, headaches — Concern over impact of many chemicals in air at same time USA

Published: August 23rd, 2012 at 1:39 pm ET 
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Title: Sinkhole drillers halt to insert pipe casing
Source: The Advocate

 

“…The Louisiana Environmental Action Network, a Baton Rouge environmental group, has asked Bayou Corne-area residents to log odors and any health symptoms that they feel as a result of the odors.

In two statements released Tuesday, LEAN noted air monitoring by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality since Aug. 4 over the sinkhole and in the neighborhoods near the sinkhole had picked up, depending on the location, benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, other volatile organic compounds and components of natural gas.

Benzene is a known carcinogen.

LEAN also said the levels of those chemicals are below Louisiana ambient air standards, which mark a threshold for health risks…..”

Concerning USA thresholds for health risks..

NRDC, EWG Sue to Protect Millions of Californians from ContaminatedDrinking Water
An Estimated 31 Million People Exposed to Cancer-Causing “Erin Brockovich” Chemical

 

SAN FRANCISCO (August 14, 2012) –The Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Working Group today sued the California Department of Public Health for failing to protect millions of Californians from hexavalent chromium, the cancer-causing chemical made infamous in the movie “Erin Brockovich” for contaminating drinking water and sickening residents in the town of Hinkley, California. The agency was supposed to establish a safe drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium eight years ago, but has failed in its duty to safeguard citizens from the toxin.

 

“Millions of Californians are drinking toxic water today due to government neglect,” said Nicholas Morales, attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “The State has not protected our drinking water supply from this carcinogen, so we’re going to the courts to put a stop to it. Clean drinking water is a precious resource, and it’s about time it’s treated as such.”

 

http://www.nrdc.org/media/2012/120814.asp

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