Old News: Area 51 workers eligible for aid

Here's a 7-month-old article on the Area 51 environmental case [courtesy of reader Archangel]:

Former Area 51 workers eligible for aid: Downwinder designation OK'd
(Las Vegas Review-Journal, 6/26/08)

WASHINGTON -- Former Department of Energy and contractor employees who worked at the top secret Area 51 base now are eligible to seek health payments available to nuclear weapons workers who got sick from their jobs, a top federal official said Wednesday.

The announcement by Shelby Hallmark, director of the Office of Worker Compensation in the Labor Department, cleared an obstacle that has prevented some former Nevada workers from getting help to battle job-related cancers and other serious illnesses that showed up years after they completed careers at weapons sites.

Hallmark said the Labor Department has designated Area 51, the 60-square mile guarded installation on the northeast border of the Nevada Test Site, as part of the test site for purposes of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation program.

Also, here is a 1996 article on the Helen Frost case in the Wall Street Journal...

A Secret Air Base [Violated] Hazardous Waste Act, Workers' Suit Alleges
(Wall Street Journal, 2/8/1996)