[CPEO-BIF] "Revised ADEQ Whirlpool pollution plan says Boys and Girls Club in plume, " Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Revised ADEQ Whirlpool pollution plan says Boys and Girls Club in plume

Fort Smith City Wire
December 26, 2014

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality issued on Dec. 19 a  
revised plan for addressing pollution in and around Whirlpool’s Fort  
Smith plant that says pollution has reached the Fort Smith Boys and  
Girls Club facility but does not necessarily present a direct health  
hazard.

The revised Remedial Action Decision Document (RADD) is another step  
in the process in which officials at ADEQ and Benton Harbor, Mich.- 
based based Whirlpool Corp. disagree about the extent and danger of  
pollution.

Whirlpool closed its Fort Smith refrigerator manufacturing plant in  
June 2012, resulting in the loss of about 1,000 jobs. The company had  
employed as many as 4,600 at the plant in the mid-2000s.

...

For the entire article, see http://www.thecitywire.com/node/35907

See also
http://swtimes.com/news/whirlpool-seeks-update-contamination-cleanup- 
plan

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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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