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Environmental testing urged at planned L.A. housing site

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Nancy Smith remembered that children had called it “the sick land” the wedge of property alongside the 110 Freeway where a dry cleaning facility had laundered aprons and uniforms for decades across from a Lincoln Heights elementary school.
“We were all up in arms about it because of the children getting sick,” said Smith, who has lived in the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood for more than half a century.
Decades after the old Welch’s laundry was shuttered, California regulators worked to clean up the soil and check the groundwater for the
chemicals used there volatile organic compounds such as tetrachloroethylene that could damage the human liver and nervous system and have been tied to an increased risk of cancer. The Department of Toxic Substances Control oversaw a cleanup effort that lasted for years and has continued to monitor groundwater at the site. ....

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Toxic chemicals sullied a Lincoln Heights site. Now, new housing is planned next to it

Toxic chemicals sullied a Lincoln Heights site. Now, new housing is planned next to it
Emily Alpert Reyes
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Patricia Camacho and Michael Henry Hayden stand in front of a Lincoln Heights lot where a 468-unit development is planned. The project has raised concerns among residents about toxic risks. (Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times)
Nancy Smith remembered that children had called it the sick land the wedge of property alongside the 110 Freeway where a dry cleaning facility had laundered aprons and uniforms for decades across from a Lincoln Heights elementary school.
We were all up in arms about it because of the children getting sick, said Smith, who has lived in the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood for more than half a century. ....

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Bergman, Sablan lead 80 members of Congress, 25 organizations in call for funding to help veterans with Gulf War Illness | News, Sports, Jobs

James Hogge
WASHINGTON – 80 Members of Congress called for funding to help Veterans with Gulf War Illness. Led by Representatives Jack Bergman (R-MI) and Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan (D-MP), the bipartisan effort in support of a treatment research program targeted at “improved health and lives of Veterans who have Gulf War Illness” comes in the midst of a series of Congressional hearings on military toxic exposures.
In a joint letter, the cosigners urged the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to provide funding needed “to continue this vital and effective program and to support its progress into more advanced, larger-scale clinical trials,” calling it, “a model of how to conduct treatment-oriented research to address complex toxic exposure health outcomes.” The Congressional efforts were supported by 25 organizations, including Veterans and military service organization and toxic exposure advocacy organizations, who this week cosigned their own similar let ....

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