[CPEO-BIF] TCE at Orscheln Products, Moberly, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Controversial bill would have aided Missouri company under scrutiny for contamination
The legislation would have barred the state from relying on federal guidance it used in a dispute with Orscheln Products LLC 

BY ALLISON KITE 
Missouri Independent
DECEMBER 6, 2021 

Two years ago, a company led by an influential Republican businessman faced off with the state’s environmental regulators over whether it needed to do additional testing for a chemical health officials worried could pose a cancer risk to the company’s workers. 

The Moberly manufacturing facility, Orscheln Products LLC, is owned by the family of businessman Barry Orscheln, who serves as CEO of Orscheln Industries and chairs the Missouri Conservation Commission. He was recently named Gov. Mike Parson’s conservationist of the year. The company was resisting calls by the Department of Natural Resources to do more testing for a carcinogenic chemical called trichloroethylene, or TCE, that has contaminated the site for years.

The company argued DNR was overzealously enforcing federal hazardous waste testing guidance that wasn’t required by law or regulation. 

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For the entire article, see
https://missouriindependent.com/2021/12/06/orscheln-missouri-contamination-dnr/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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