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Whirlpool Children?۪s Park used as a PCB filled Dumping Ground             Several members of the families of children who have died or been stricken with cancer in what has become known as the ???Clyde Children?۪s Cancer Cluster?۝ are devastated to learn the results of a United States Environmental Protection Agency report that was recently released.  The report discloses that Whirlpool Park, built for children in the Clyde area to play, is also a dumping ground full of PCBs and Toxic Metals filled sludge.  The sludge is described in the EPA Report to be over nine feet in depth in places.  The families are equally outraged to learn that the fact that the Whirlpool Park was used as a dumping site was not disclosed by Whirlpool itself, but rather was discovered once the US EPA set up a confidential hotline where people could call and inform the EPA of toxic dumping…
A federal class action lawsuit was filed on Tuesday against Whirlpool Corp. regarding the Clyde Cancer Cluster. The lawsuit points to a new possible cause for the cancer cluster, linking the cancer cases to exposure to benzaldehyde, a compound that was found in the attics of five different homes  within a mile of Whirlpool's plant in Clyde. Whirlpool uses the compound in the porcelain process of manufacturing appliances at their Clyde plant.
Federal representatives from Boeing Co. are heading to Afghanistan to examine a 747 cargo plane crash that occurred Monday at the Bagram Air Base, a U.S. operated base. The cause of the accident is currently unknown but National Air Cargo, the plane's operator, has confirmed that seven American crew members were killed in the crash. Click here for more info and for video footage of the crash. If you need representation in an aviation disaster case, contact the airplane crash attorney's at Dewsnup, King, & Olsen (801) 533-0400 or (800) 404-8520.  
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