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Newsletter Archive August 2010 Exxon Valdez Cleanup Crew Dead!
Newsletter Archive August 2010 Exxon Valdez Cleanup Crew Dead!
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by: NewsInferno.com A lawyer who represented on such Exxon Valdez worker told CNN that One examination of health records of 11,000 Exxon Valdez cleanup workers found that 6,722 of them had gotten sick. The government and the company called those illnesses the “Exxon crud,” a flu or cold that Exxon was not required to report to federal health officials, CNN said. One former Exxon Valdez cleanup worker interviewed by CNN said he was “slowly poisoned” by the toxins he was exposed to. Today, he continues to suffer from rashes, respiratory problems, and is going blind. Of note, one of the dispersants used to break up the Exxon Valdez disaster included a variant of Corexit. Corexit is the dispersant BP has used during this disaster in unprecedented amounts. The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)has identified the 2-butoxyethanol in Corexit to be a causal agent in the health problems experienced by cleanup workers after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. These ailments included respiratory, nervous system, liver, kidney and blood disorders.
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