Worried Sick in Massachusetts

April 22, 2007 - Steve DaRosa wonders: Could his hair loss and his father's cancer have been caused by the toxic ash that was for years dumped across the street and subsequently spread over portions of adjacent land to make way for the high school? What about his 16-year-old daughter, who spends her days at a school still tainted with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), lead and other hazardous materials, then returns home, where soil samples taken from their yard have revealed the same contamination?

Steve DaRosa wonders, and he's not alone.

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