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Behind Irvine`s $2.2 Billion Fight for the Great Park`s Future

The 'Great Park' project is losing tax-based financial support quickly.

(IRVINE, CA) - This is part one of a two-part look at the financial realities of the Great Park in Irvine, California, situated on the former El Toro Marine base.

El Toro's nightmarish toxicity and the related Marine illnesses and deaths, are not missing the radar of the Orange County press.

World Says Good Bye to Dr. Rosalie Bertell, Noted Biometrician and Environmental Epidemiologist

"...she remained in good spirits and most interested in all of the works of justice she strove to support throughout her life right to the end."

(YARDLEY, PA) - It is a sad day for those of us who have followed the incredible life work of Dr. Rosalie Bertell.

She passed away 14 June 2012.

How a Bunch of Scrappy Marines Could Help Vanquish Breast Cancer

Mother Jones examines the plight of male breast cancer survivors from Camp Lejeune.

(DA NANG, Viet Nam) - It all started with Mike Partain, a.k.a. Number One. A barrel-chested father of four with a goatee and a predilection for aviator sunglasses.

Partain was born at Camp Lejeune, the North Carolina base where his father, a first lieutenant in the US Marine Corps, was stationed in the late 1960s.

U.S. MARINES! A Few Good Men Except For Toxic Waste

A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals, stands with the best works of New Journalism and Creative Nonfiction.

(CINCINNATI) - This poem celebrates the new book, A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals, which focuses on the contamination of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station El Toro and other U.S. military bases.

BUSTED! DoD Letter Discovered in Federal Register Proves TCE and Cancer Have Been Linked for Years

Boom! Caught with their pants down... includes the full nine page DoD memorandum from 2000.

(SALEM) - Scientific studies into the dangerous chemical TCE that pollutes U.S. military bases worldwide, drew the conclusion well over a decade ago, that it is a human carcinogen and it causes cancer.

800 Marines Need Your Help - Will you Answer the Call?

Send Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force care packages.

(CAMP LEJEUNE, NC) - Every summer, Move America Forward focuses on supporting one particular unit deployed in Afghanistan.

Radiation at El Toro Hangar Unresolved

Marines who worked in the north mezzanine of Hangar 296 were at risk of exposure to Radium 226 and its radioactive decay products.

(IRVINE, CA) - An old WW II hangar over 200,000 square feet in area at former MCAS El Toro will not be on any tourist list now and maybe for years to come.

Hangar 296 is one of the primary sites of the TCE plume spreading into Orange County and reason for the base’s placement on the National Priority List (NPL), commonly referred to as the EPA Superfund.

Cleanup for North Orange County Toxic Plume Could Cost $200 Million

A nation bent on military buildup that does not relent when it can, is truly one of the most dangerous.

(ANAHEIM, CA) - When it comes to environmental contamination in Orange County, California, we typically cover the south county eyesore that was once a Marine fighter base, the old MCAS El Toro.

Now, thanks to an article by Pat Brennan, published yesterday by the Orange County Register, we get the dirty details on another plume, this one in north Orange County.

MCAS El Toro: Southern California`s Environmental Nightmare

Who knows what lurks beneath your drain?

(IRVINE, CA) - Most Southern Californians are familiar with El Toro, the now-closed Marine Corps air base just an hour south of LA.

Waterfront Sportsman Motorcycle Ride Will Benefit Clean Water

Complete Details for the Waterfront Sportsman Motorcycle Ride for Water Quality from Camp Pendleton, Ca.to Camp Lejeune, NC & Month Long Motor Coach Camp

(CAMP LEJEUNE, NC) - Waterfront Sportsman is Sponsoring a Motorcycle Ride for Water Quality that is also exposing the financial corruption related to Broken Dreams in the False Claims Act as to the Spin to the Scope of the ex PGA President Will Mann and the PGA.