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    Letter: DPH study raises questions about Rest of River reasoning

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    Letter: DPH study raises questions about Rest of River reasoning

    To the editor: The Massachusetts Department of Public Health crunched the numbers and could not find evidence that exposure to PCBs caused an increase in cancers in Pittsfield and four other towns along the Housatonic River. (“Study: No elevated rates of PCB-related cancers in Pittsfield, Housatonic River towns,” Eagle, Sept. 17.)

    Yet a professor of environmental health is quoted in The Eagle’s article as saying “PCBs almost certainly increase the risk of every kind of cancer.”

    The study shows that it could not detect that increase. To me, the study means that General Electric is about to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to remove millions of gallons of muck that I think is harmless to human beings. I suppose there is an alternate universe (possibly in Lee) where this makes sense.

    Why not put the GE money into a capital fund that will generate funds annually to spread around as grants to deserving causes both public and private?

    Jonas Dovydenas, Lenox

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