Pratt blamed over cancer cases

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida: A nationally known environmental scientist last week told a federal judge there is no doubt radioactive materials and other toxins from Pratt & Whitney’s massive engine manufacturing plant off the Beeline Highway pose a risk to thousands of people who live in The Acreage.

Marco Kaltofen, president of a Boston-area company that has helped unravel the impacts of various environmental calamities throughout the country, told US District Judge Kenneth Marra he found “shockingly high levels of radioactive isotopes” in homes in the rural area and in tissues of two young people who died of cancer.