[CPEO-BIF] Cleaning up GE/Powerex, Auburn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Need to clean up an old CNY factory site? New York proposes using vegetable oil

by Charley Hannagan 
Syracuse Post-Standard (NY)
January 15, 2016 

Vegetable oil is great for frying chicken, but what about cleaning up a Superfund hazardous waste site?

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation wants to inject emulsified vegetable oil into the ground at the old GE/Powerex plant in the town of Aurelius, just west of Auburn, to clean up hazardous chemicals there. 

The DEC plans to use the vegetable oil to encourage microorganisms in the soil to eat the contaminates.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/01/vegetable_oil_to_clean_up_toxic_waste.html

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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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