Posted on 03.11.22
After Monroe school exposure, WA budgets $1.6 million for study and removal of toxic lights
Source: https://www.seattletimes.com/, March 11, 2022
By: Lulu Ramadan
Washington lawmakers dedicated $1.5 million to remove toxic fluorescent lights from schools and an additional $125,000 to study environmental hazards and create new standards to protect students from exposure to harmful substances.
In requesting the funding, lawmakers cited an investigation by The Seattle Times and ProPublica into a Monroe campus where children and staff were exposed to a combination of harmful conditions, including elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a banned chemical that the Environmental Protection Agency has linked to cancer and other illnesses. Read more.
