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West Lothian UK: MP demands apology from council
A WEST Lothian MP says the people of Armadale deserve an apology from West Lothian Council for failing to properly protect their health from pollution coming from Giscol Brickworks. Linlithgow MP Michael Connarty says he has uncovered a letter from June 1992 where the local authority, which at that time was West Lothian District Council, […]
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Brickworks poisons could hit vineyards
The Department of Environment and Conservation has made the belated admission that high levels of poisonous emissions from Midland Brick could have damaged one of the State’s most valuable tourist industries, the Swan Valley vineyards. The concession came after the department launched an investigation into whether Midland Brick had breached its licence conditions by failing […]
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Plant’s emissions worry neighbors
It took more than two years for local air-pollution regulators to issue a permit for the Phoenix Brick Yard, but it took less than a week for opponents to lodge complaints. The south-central Phoenix plant last week received a permit that regulates it as a major source of pollution. It’s the first time in the […]
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Anti-brick brigade fights for more pollution controls
An NT music faculty member is leading a charge with fellow Denton citizens to force Acme Brick to reexamine its “business as usual” attitude. Acme’s Denton manufacturing plant on Fort Worth Drive has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for renewal of their air quality permit, which associate professor Ed Soph contends the […]
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Residents ‘left in the dark’ about emissions
Angry residents claimed they were “left in the dark” about emissions from a ceramic tile plant approved for Rutherford. Heather Berry and Sandra Smith said they were shocked to find out hydrogen fluoride and heavy metals would be released into the atmosphere from the multi-million dollar project – even after they were told the only […]
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S. Phoenix pollution tests in doubt because of rain
Air samples from a south-central Phoenix neighborhood confirm residents’ complaints that a hazardous air pollutant is hovering in the area. But distrustful residents doubted the results, revealed last week by state environmental officials at the initial meeting of a project to reduce toxic exposure in south Phoenix. Rain on three of the five testing days […]
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Verbal bricks tossed at plant
Residents and activists who turned out for a public hearing this week on the Phoenix Brick Yard’s air-pollution permit didn’t have kind words for the long-running operation. The 11 people who offered formal testimony to Maricopa County air-pollution officials blamed the plant for harming their health, unleashing truck traffic in their south-central neighborhood and even […]
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Residents give concerns at brick yard meeting
PHOENIX – Neighbors of the only brick yard operating in the state complained about pollution and dust from the facility at a public hearing Tuesday night. About 30 people attended the meeting, held as part of the Phoenix Brick Yard’s quest to get a permit regulating its operation as a major source of hazardous air […]
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County will regulate brick plant
The Phoenix Brick Yard, operating south of downtown Phoenix for 67 years, is being pulled into the 21st century by air-quality regulations and some agitated activists. The brick-making operation, at Seventh Avenue and Mohave Street, has been classified as a major source of hazardous air pollutants. The plant is among the last batch of operations […]
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