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Mulberry bailout tops $1M
MANATEE COUNTY — Florida taxpayers continue to pay thousands of dollars a day to prevent an environmental disaster at two bankrupt fertilizer plants, a report released this week shows. And the bills continue to mount as the state looks for ways to clean up the mess that Mulberry Corp. left behind when financial ruin forced […]
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Workers share stories about health woes
JOLIET – Larry Kelman of Naperville knew for the 45 years he worked at the University of Chicago and later Argonne National Laboratory that the dust swirling around him and other employees probably was not a good thing. But he didn’t know it would cost him the use of his lungs. Barbara Bush of Joliet […]
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Piney Point: Phosphate plants under close eye
It’s not like you can padlock the doors and walk away. The complexities of keeping a phosphate processing plant operating are becoming clear to government regulators now overseeing two of them. Ponds full of 1.5 billion gallons of acid and three mountains of radioactive waste mean you just can’t shut off the machinery and turn […]
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Cancer mystery deepens
J.C. Conner looked over a picture taken several years ago at Old Country Buffet. There’s a group of about 40 elderly men enjoying the day. And there are Xs put over 25 of the people in the picture. “I’ve put an X on them as they die,” said Conner, who like those in the picture […]
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Lebanese Chemical Company Dumping Wastewater into Mediterranean
Beirut, September 21st 2000 – Greenpeace today demanded an answer from the Ministry of Environment regarding its failure to fulfil the commitment made to pressure the Lebanese Chemical Company (LCC) to state, by WHEN, its plan to implement measures to curb the toxic pollution it is pumping into the Mediterranean Sea daily. During a Greenpeace […]
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Building 55: Was a killer in our midst?
Vince Driscoll and longtime buddy Ken Kurtz sometimes would reminisce about their dads while working at their state transportation jobs. Both of their dads, and some other relatives, worked at the old Blockson Chemical Co. on Patterson Road just south of Joliet. Driscoll, of Channahon, and Kurtz also mused about how many former, and current, […]
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Brazil’s ‘Valley of Death’ breathes again, barely
CUBATAO, Brazil, Aug. 6 — At the base of tropical mountains as green and dense as broccoli lies Cubatao, a city many Brazilians still know as the place where babies were born without brains 20 years ago. Cubatao’s chimneys still belch smoke and flames into the air 24 hours a day and a stale industrial […]
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EPA to review contamination from Idaho phosphorous plants
The Shoshone-Bannock tribes have convinced the Environmental Protection Agency to take a second look at soil and water contamination from two phosphorous plants that operate within or near their reservation’s borders. The federal agency will review cleanup plans for the Superfund site that includes the plants run by FMC, now called Astaris, and the J.R. […]
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Campaign to protect creek has few allies
A state DEP official, two counties and phosphate companies oppose protected status for the waterway. For such a small stream, Horse Creek is giving the state Department of Environmental Protection a big headache. The sandy-bottomed rivulet flows 40 miles south through Hardee and DeSoto counties, draining parts of Polk, Manatee and Hillsborough until it joins […]
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Haifa Chemicals Sludge and Kishon River Mud Contaminated
Malta, 8 June 1998 – Sludge regularly dumped by the Israeli fertilizer producer Haifa Chemicals in the Mediterranean Sea is contaminated by a cocktail of toxic heavy metals and organic pollutants. This is the result of scientific test results carried out by the Greenpeace International Laboratory at Exeter University in England. A similar toxic cocktail […]
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