From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sat, 10 Oct 2015 21:14:44 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Kerr-McGee creosote in Navassa, North Carolina |
Residents of contaminated town wary of government efforts by MARTHA WAGGONER Associated Press October 10,2015 NAVASSA, N.C. (AP) -- In the little town of Navassa, work has always been hard and dirty. >From antebellum rice plantations to Jim Crow-era fertilizer factories and more recently, a massive wood treatment plant, the community in the Gullah-Geechee corridor of coastal North Carolina has yielded the natural resources and back-breaking labor to make money for owners and corporations. But the wood treatment plant left behind a poisonous legacy - creosote that soaked deep into the soil. … For the entire article, see http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_RESTORING_A_TOWN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-10-10-13-04-59 -- 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 http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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