Air in Portables
* After reading “Study Warns of Possible Cancer Risk in Schools” (May 28), I downloaded the 30-page study titled “Reading, Writing and Risk: Air Pollution Inside California’s Portable Classrooms” (https://www.ewg.org) released May 27 by the Environmental Working Group.
Besides revealing that the 2 million kids statewide are probably being exposed to harmful airborne chemicals in portables, it also revealed that last year the state Department of Health Services wrote a report that warned of air quality problems in portable classrooms but that this report was held back by the Wilson administration for the incoming administration of Gov. Gray Davis. To date, this report remains unreleased.
Since when does the change of administration matter when the health of our schoolchildren might be at risk? The public needs to pressure Sacramento for the report’s release.
PAMELA NAGLER
Claremont
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