19 New York Schools Sued Over Toxic Materials In Schools

A Bronx woman has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the city to clean up illegal levels of toxins in nineteen public schools. According to a story in the New York Daily News, “Naomi Gonzalez, whose two children attend Public School 178 in Co-op City – one of the schools tested by the News – filed the first stage of a lawsuit designed to force the city Department of Education to remove PCB-laced caulking from all public schools.”

Federal law requires that any material with PCB greater than fifty parts per million must be immediately removed.

The city has admitted that the nineteen public schools used materials that exceed fifty parts per million.

The Department of Education removed contaminated soil from several schools over the summer, but are yet to remove the caulking. Moreover, the Department has argued that, despite federal law, PCB in caulking does not create any health risks to students.

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Tannery Sued Over Brain Tumor Clusters

A judge has issued a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit alleging that toxic chemicals from a tannery has led to a cluster of brain tumors in Cameron, Missouri. The town has seen approximately seventy people diagnosed with brain tumors in the last twelve years.

Although federal investigators have not determined the cause of the tumors, the lawsuit points to Prime Tanning Corporation.

The complaint alleges that for nearly twenty years, the tannery supplied toxic chemicals used in removing hair from hides, to farmers for use as a fertilizer.

The temporary restraining order prevents the tannery from destroying any documents related to the toxic chemicals.

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