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EPA`s Final Health Assessment for TCE and Trichloroethylene (CASRN 79-01-6)

For those who seek to better understand the deadly toxin TCE, trichloroethylene.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final health assessment for trichloroethylene (TCE) to the Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) database in 09/28/2011.

IRIS is a human health assessment program that evaluates the latest science on chemicals in our environment.

Mountain View CA: TCE Plume Remediation Will Take 100 Years

Irvine Great Park TCE Cleanup: What doesn’t USEPA know and when didn’t they know it?

(LAGUNA BEACH) - Mountain View and Irvine might be 400 miles apart here in California but they are populated by the same regulatory oversight players and exhibit similar remediation dynamics.

These include, but certainly not limited to nebulous timelines, indeterminate environmental and human health impacts plus vague eventual cost projections.

California`s Toxic Secret

Senators are asking tough questions. The heat is on.

(SACRAMENTO Consumer Watchdog) - It’s outrageous and it’s got to stop. Top California regulators in charge of cleaning up polluters’ messes own hundreds of thousands of dollars in the polluters’ own stock.

It’s no wonder California has the nation’s toughest environmental laws and the weakest enforcement.

Marines Need Funds to Publish Non-Fiction Book

Story of murder, narcotrafficing and environmental contamination written by two Marine veterans.

(IRVINE CA / CAMP LEJEUNE NC) - The connection is not a square peg in a square hole, but its damn close.

Marine Corps leadership was involved in murder, crime scene cover-up, narcotrafficking (cocaine, the drug of choice), the shredding of records, and the denial of injuries from exposure to deadly contaminants at both El Toro and Camp Lejeune.

Irvine, MCAS El Toro and the Associated Bull

'America's Safest City' has a toxic, dirty secret that local press ignores.

(IRVINE, CA) - There has to be a term for people who write at length about a subject without addressing the core root of the matter.

I know money is important in Southern California, but if you're dead from cancer it means little. Irvine has a terribly contaminated closed Marine Corps base on its hands...

BETRAYAL: Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder and Government Cover-Up

Now on Amazon Kindle...

(SOMERDALE, NJ) - BETRAYAL tells the true story of government sanctioned murder, CIA proprietary airlines transporting weapons and cocaine, and injuries at El Toro and Camp Lejeune.

[MCAS EL TORO SUPERFUND SITE] BETRAYAL -- Toxic Exposure of U.S. Marines, Murder & Government Cover-up

None of the veterans that served aboard these two installations were notified of their exposure to deadly contaminants when it was discovered...

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - BETRAYAL is written by two former MCAS El Toro Marines, Robert O’Dowd, Salem-News investigative reporter and disabled veteran, and Tim King, photojournalist and war correspondent.

It is a thrilling and informative nonfiction account of contamination at two Marine Corps installations—Marine Corps Air Station El Toro on the West Coast (CA) and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune on the East Coast (NC).

California Quelches Plans to Transform Marine Base into Homes

Voice of OC reveals dimming hope for Irvine's 'Great Park' project.

(SALEM) - The story of the proposed redevelopment of the old El Toro Marine base in Irvine, California is beginning to match our predictions from more than three years ago.

The effort was bogus from day one; the base is packed with toxic chemicals and their residue and no sensible person would consider living even close to it, let alone 'on' the old wreck of a base.

Marine`s Homicide Rejected by `Scientific Journals`

Convincing evidence in a scientific paper by two forensic experts of the murder of Colonel James E. Sabow rejected by leading forensic journals.

(SALEM) - The difference between homicide and suicide can sometimes be a close call, requiring extensive pathological review and crime scene reconstruction.

However, the violent death of Marine Colonel James E. Sabow at MCAS El Toro on January 22, 1991, was a clear case of homicide. For those with knowledge of the cold case, this isn’t even a close call.

A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals

An eBook by Tim King and Robert O’Dowd tackles the environmental contamination at former MCAS El Toro and Camp Lejeune, including the murder of a senior Marine Corps officer at El Toro. The book is scheduled for release in October/November 2011.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals tells the story of the thousands of veterans, their families and civilian workers at former MCAS El Toro and Camp Lejeune.

At one time, these were two of the most hazardous military installations in the U.S.