[CPEO-BIF] Honeywell and chromium - Baltimore (MD) and Jersey City (NJ)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BUILD urges cleanup of chromium dump
Group demands Honeywell remove carcinogen from Dundalk site


By Tom Pelton
Baltimore Sun
June 3, 2006

A community group is trying to force a New Jersey-based manufacturing 
company to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to remove a 
cancer-causing chemical from a state-owned shipping center on the 
Baltimore waterfront.

Organizers of Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD) said 
they want Honeywell International Inc. to remove millions of cubic yards 
of chromium - waste from a former chrome factory - from beneath the 
Dundalk Marine Terminal, where it was dumped decades ago to fill wetlands.

The group points out that Honeywell in April launched a $400 million 
project to remove the same chemical from a waterfront industrial site in 
Jersey City, N.J., which was America's other major chrome manufacturing 
center, along with Baltimore, during the early 20th century.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.chrome03jun03,0,5744202.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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