[CPEO-BIF] "Grenada [Mississippi] polluters misled EPA, ignored effects to community for decades: attorneys"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Grenada polluters misled EPA, ignored effects to community for decades: attorneys

by Anna Wolfe
Jackson Clarion Ledger (MS)
February 20, 2018 

A company responsible for toxic contamination at a Grenada manufacturing facility misled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to avoid anymore costly clean-up, attorneys for neighboring residents allege.

Since the 1990's, Meritor Inc. has been tasked with studying the extent of the mess and conducting remediation. In the process, it massaged the language of its reports to the EPA to downplay the potential threat to those living nearby, the attorneys say.

Under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which set the framework for these kinds of projects, the polluter hires its own consultant to research the area, propose clean-up plans and keep EPA informed of its progress.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/20/grenada-polluters-misled-epa-ignored-affects-community-decades-attorneys/329456002/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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