[CPEO-BIF] "How 17 years of [TCE] pollution in White Bear Township [Minnesota] was finally stopped"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How 17 years of pollution in White Bear Township was finally stopped

By BOB SHAW
Twin Cities Pioneer Press (MN)
October 13, 2019 


For 17 years, the Twin Cities company Water Gremlin released TCE, a chemical known to cause cancer, from its plant in White Bear Township. State inspectors missed it while neighbors of the company may have unknowingly breathed it.

It ended only when an employee of the company - and detective work by the regulators - helped reveal it had been one of the worst polluters in state history. Water Gremlin was hit with $7 million in fines, the largest civil penalty ever issued by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.

The volume of the pollution — 12 times the allowable amount last year — broke legal limits.

“It’s been incredibly frustrating for me,” said Leigh Thiel, who lives across the street and downwind from the site and is on the board of the Neighborhood Concerned Citizens Group.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.twincities.com/2019/10/11/how-17-years-of-pollution-in-white-bear-township-was-finally-stopped/

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





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