[CPEO-BIF] Paulsboro, New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

In Paulsboro, a blue-collar town wrestles with industry

High schoolers in Paulsboro spend time with billowing smokestacks when they hit the football field.
BY JASON NARK
Philadelphia Daily News (PA)


THE TIDE WAS going out in Paulsboro, and from Gary Stevenson's kitchen table a few geese could be seen hugging the bank of Mantua Creek, just beyond the inky eddies swirling out toward the Delaware River.

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Paulsboro, whose high school boasts the storied Red Raiders wrestling team, has grappled for years with odd odors on breezy days and the occasional rain of "clarified slurry oil" from the local refinery gunking up cars.

But the stakes rose in November, when a southbound Conrail train derailed into the creek near Stevenson's house and leaked 25,000 gallons of toxic vinyl chloride. The confusion that followed spurred a group of residents to question whether the companies behind the industry can keep the town safe, and they're urging neighbors to snap out of what they call a "company town" mentality.

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For the entire article, see
http://mobile.philly.com/news/?wss=/philly/news&id=198894481&viewAll=y#more

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