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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