President Biden Signs The Honoring Our Pact Act and Camp Lejeune Justice Act Into Law

Marines and civilian employees may file lawsuits against the Marine Corp, Department of Defense, and others for having developed Camp Lejeune water cancer

Wednesday, August 10, 2022 - Reuters has reported that President Joe Biden made good on his State of the Union Address promise earlier this year to provide enhanced medical benefits and additional income and expand the list of those entitled to benefits by signing the Honoring Our Pact Act into law today. "U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law Wednesday (August 10) the S. 3373, Sgt. 1st Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promises to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 2022, saying as a nation "we have one truly sacred obligation, to equip those we send into harm's way and to care for them and their families when they come home," according to the report. The flagship component of the bill is the Camp Lejeune Justice Act included within, which grants US Marines and civilian employees that lived or worked on the Camp Lejeune Marine base at any time between 1953 and 1987, the right to file a lawsuit against the Federal government for ccer they or their loved ones suffer from or have died from.

The Marine Corp has known for decades that disposing of hazardous waste on the military base caused volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to leach down into the local water table, polluting lakes, streams, and rivers that fed into the local drinking water treatment facilities. The toxic wastewater also drained into the base's wells that pumped water directly into the homes of Marine families. The Marine Corp made little effort to alert the population that their drinking water could cause Camp Lejeune water cancer to themselves, their spouses, and children. Marines with families members with cancer and familiar with the situation have told the media that the Marine Corp sent a one-off flyer about their drinking water suspicions to Marines currently stationed on the base, ignoring the hundreds of thousands that had passed through and also ignoring those who would pass through in the future. The Camp Lejeune Justice Act covers anyone who lived or worked on the Camp Lejeune Marine base from 1953 until 1987 when the last contaminated well was shut down. The CLJA covers Marines and civilian employees who have developed a wide variety of types of cancer including but not limited to Leukemia, Bladder cancer, Kidney cancer, Multiple myeloma, and Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. If you or a family member have received a cancer diagnosis and have lived on the Camp Lejeune Marine Base in North Carolina, you should speak with a Camp Lejeune Justice Act lawyer to file a CLJA cancer claim. The Camp Lejeune Marine base drinking water wells were designated as contaminated with volatile organic compounds decades ago and shut down in 1987. Millions of marines, civilian employees, and their respective family members, including tens of thousands of pregnant women, have drunk carcinogenic quantities of deadly toxins. According to the VA, "According to the VA, up to 900,000 members of the military were exposed to tainted water at Camp Lejeune over 30 years. The levels of contaminates in drinking water were found to be 240 to 3400 times higher than the permissible limit."

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