Court rules Army failed to provide crucial info on damage, contamination at Makua - The Hawaii Independent

Court rules Army failed to provide crucial info on damage, contamination at Makua - The Hawaii Independent


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“The Army’s study says that, if the arsenic it found in limu at Makua is present in its toxic form, even recreational consumption of that limu would pose the same cancer risk as smoking a pack of cigarettes each day, but then it didn’t bother to figure out if the arsenic was or was not toxic,” said Malama Makua board member Vince Dodge. “I’m glad the court recognized I have a right to know if military training at Makua is poisoning the food I put on my family’s table.”