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New Air Monitor At Coronet Finds No Hydrogen Fluoride
PLANT CITY – A new monitor has not detected toxic hydrogen fluoride in the air around Coronet Industries, officials said Wednesday. Hydrogen fluoride is of particular concern because Coronet discharges about 33 tons per year from its smokestacks and holding ponds. The chemical is harmful to humans even in small quantities, said Jerry Campbell, air […]
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Coronet Testing Will Not Expand
PLANT CITY – Widespread testing of wells for pollution won’t be expanded beyond a quarter-mile radius of Coronet Industries, officials said Monday. With few exceptions, no more wells will be tested in the ongoing study of the health of residents near the phosphate processing plant, said Hillsborough County Health Department Director Doug Holt. Contaminated wells […]
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State Looks At Dangers Of Coronet Bankruptcy
TALLAHASSEE – Environmental regulators told state lawmakers Thursday that Coronet Industries Inc. is pledging its cooperation in an ongoing pollution investigation but that concern remains high over the company’s financial stability. If the phosphate processor were to abandon its Plant City production facility and declare bankruptcy, Florida taxpayers could be left with the estimated $45 […]
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$45 Million Question
PLANT CITY – The state estimates it would cost as much as $45 million to clean up Coronet Industries Inc. should the 980-acre plant close. In documents released Thursday, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection questions whether the phosphate processor has the money it needs to stay in business. The agency says it is losing […]
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Cochran Encourages Audience On Coronet
PLANT CITY – The century- old Coronet Industries plant is drawing more celebrity attention than this rural area of northeast Hillsborough County could have imagined. But it isn’t the kind of publicity the chamber of commerce relishes in the winter strawberry capital of the world. A month after California- based law firm Masry and Vititoe […]
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Lawyer Expects To Sue Coronet
PLANT CITY – The head of a law firm made famous by the movie “Erin Brockovich” said Sunday he expects to file a lawsuit against Coronet Industries on behalf of neighboring residents in about 60 days. Ed Masry, whose California- based firm employs Brockovich-Ellis as its research director, said he anticipates spending at least $1 […]
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Coronet To Pump $400,000 In Plant
PLANT CITY – The Coronet Industries factory opened a few years before World War I. And like a battle-scarred veteran, the phosphate processing plant is showing its age. Environmental regulators say it is time for the plant to be brought up to date and better maintained. The county Environmental Protection Commission has cited Coronet for […]
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DEP Investigates Itself In Handling Of Coronet
PLANT CITY – The state’s top environmental regulator has launched an internal investigation into how the state Department of Environmental Protection has handled enforcement action at Coronet Industries. “Would you please make it a priority to thoroughly review how we got into the current situation at Coronet and what we might do to make sure […]
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Brockovich Firm Takes Case On Coronet Health Concerns
PLANT CITY – Shannon Franco was in tears, but they were tears of joy. “I’m so happy, because now we’ll finally get some answers,” she said. She was referring to an announcement from California- based Masry & Vititoe, where the famed environmental crusader Erin Brockovich is head of research, that the law firm is going […]
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Fluoride Omitted from Soil Testing Near Coronet
PLANT CITY – Soil tests in the vicinity of Coronet Industries have uncovered no unsafe levels of nearly a dozen pollutants, environmental officials announced Monday. The soil was tested for 11 inorganic compounds, including arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead and boron. The levels detected were above what would be considered naturally occurring in Florida’s soil, but […]
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