Mercury-laden bulbs flood apartments
Resident objects because no notice of EPA health warning
Posted: June 17, 2008
9:53 pm Eastern
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has documented that compact fluorescent light bulbs are not safe to use in some locations, and cleanup of broken fixtures can involve cutting out sections of carpeting that are contaminated with mercury. Now a property manager that operates facilities in Washington and Idaho is telling tenants under a new program it will replace all bulbs with CFLs, without any warning about their dangers.
A spokesman at Rockwood Lodge Apartments in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, told WND that the new program is moving forward, although it is not mandatory.
The apartment spokesman referred WND to the company's corporate offices at Rockwood Property Management for more details on the effort, but officials there did not return a call seeking comment.
However, one resident, whose name was withheld, told WND that while the company may say the program switching incandescent to fluorescent is not mandatory, "they did not tell people that in the letter." More
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