WebThank you for visiting The Acreage Cancer Study website. These include Cesium-137, Iridium-191, and Cadmium-109. A Pratt & Whitney spokesperson released the following statement regarding the verdict: "The jury's verdict confirms our conviction thatPratt & Whitney did not cause any contamination in the Acreage and did not cause any cancers in the cancer cluster. Periodically, the belt would start beeping in the middle of the night. Millions of dollars could be at stake. New Acreage 'cancer cluster' lawsuit filed - WPTV Hatfield and her colleagues at the law firm traced the radioactive contamination in the Acreage to two companies with operations in the area. In 2000, when Pratt & Whitney was considering leaving its Florida site, it entered into discussions with Palm Beach County about selling some of its land as a site for drinking wells. However, though the study did not find an association with workplace exposures, it did confirm the elevated brain-cancer rate at the North Haven plant. When Jenna was near death, she told her mother she wanted to take her caps to the hospital so the other kids could use them after she was gone. Lawsuit Linking Child Cancer to Aerospace Plant Hangs in the Contamination spread to the nearby aquifer and canals, and the lawsuit blames the two companies. Before you start printing and downloading, be sure you have read the article first. In Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, historian David Rosner describes how plastics and chemical manufacturers avoided regulation in part by making their own economic interests seem synonymous with those of the country. Since there is no evidence that contaminated groundwater traveled a distance of 6 to 14 miles to the Acreage from Pratts 7,000-acre compound off the Beeline Highway, Hatfield and her legal team will argue that it was carried there by trucks. _udn = "none"; The Law Did Not Treat Them Kindly. state. Pratt & Whitney designs and manufactures engines for airplanes, rockets and even the space shuttle. Those radionuclides that have been detected in the Acreage at above natural background rates but may be termed naturally occurring include Uranium-234, Uranium-235 Uranium-236, and elevated levels of the decay products of Thorium, particularly Lead-214 and Bismuth-214 and Actinium-228. We ask that if you live in the area and have a brain tumor, some form of cancer, or another diagnosed medical problem, that you call the Palm Beach County Department of Health at 561-514-5300. This article will provide you with some guidelines on how you can obtain high-quality maps. Each day held a new surprise for them. If anything happened to them, she said, I could not live with myself. And the air was often filled with smoke, which came from both the burning of sugar cane and the fires on the banks of nearby Lake Okeechobee. Where did I live?