2019 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:51:32 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Minnesota considers banning TCE following emissions problem in White Bear Township"
 
Minnesota considers banning TCE following emissions problem in White Bear Township
The hazardous industrial solvent remains in wide use despite high toxicity. 

By Jennifer Bjorhus 
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
March 15, 2019 

Minnesota legislators are considering a statewide ban on the solvent trichloroethylene following revelations that a White Bear Township manufacturer vented the carcinogen into the air at unsafe levels for more than a decade.

It’s a rare crackdown.

Even though the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies the chemical as a human carcinogen and a developmental toxin - and it’s been largely banned in the European Union and Sweden — trichloroethylene (TCE) is still widely used in the United States.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-considers-banning-tce-following-emissions-problem-in-white-bear-township/507171492/

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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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