Today's Headlines:

Small-town residents living on deadly ground
(h/t firedoglake.com)

"For more than three years, neither the plant's owner nor Florida state regulators who had learned of the leak bothered to tell them."...
..."Ward was the first Tallevast resident to learn of the toxic chemicals beneath the community. Her first clue came when she happened to look out her window one day in 2003 to see a giant rig drilling monitoring wells on her property."...
........"Lockheed Martin said state laws in effect at the time did not require the company or state to inform residents of what was happening.

...''This is not anything Lockheed Martin was trying to keep secret,'' said spokeswoman Gail Rymer. ``We were following the guidelines. And we found that, in hindsight, we wished we would have engaged them earlier.''...

Source: Miami Herald
Posted on Sat, May. 03, 2008
BY RONNIE GREENE
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