[CPEO-BIF] Emerson to remain responsible for Ithaca (NY) plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Emerson still involved in cleanup

By Krisy Gashler
Ithaca Journal
August 13, 2009

Emerson will remain financially responsible for cleaning up the toxic 
pollution left by its predecessor, company and state officials confirmed 
Wednesday.

Emerson spokesman Dave Baldridge said that costs associated with 
cleaning up the pollution were not a factor in the company's decision to 
close the plant.

Borg Warner operated the Morse Chain factory until 1983. The company 
sold the plant to Emerson, which renamed it Emerson Power Transmission. 
Borg Warner built a new manufacturing facility in Lansing, which is 
still the county's largest for-profit employer. It makes components for 
the auto industry, and Emerson's plant serves industrial customers.

In 1987, Emerson discovered that trichloroethylene (TCE), a likely 
carcinogen, had leaked into the factory's fire water reservoir during 
Morse Chain's ownership of the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090813/NEWS01/908130368/1126/Emerson+still+involved+in+cleanup

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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