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Top 20 water polluters
Last Sunday the Chicago Tribune ran another article in their occasional series on the problems with major polluters at the south end of Lake Michigan. They compiled a national list of the 20 worst factories that "pose biggest health risk to local communities." I won't reproduce the whole list (You can read the article online. It's worth it.) but there are some interesting plants listed.
U.S. Steel Gary Works (#3) is the worst on Lake Michigan, and new permits for that plant have been the topic of U.S. EPA hearings this week. BP's Whiting Refinery (discussed frequently in these entries) is farther down at #17. The Indiana Harbor Belt is the greatest concentration of names with those two and Mittal Steel USA's Indiana Harbor West plant at #14.
A number of traditional process plants appear on the list, primarily power stations, a couple refineries, and the odd chemical plant. No surprise there. What is interesting is that two U.S. DOE labs are on the list. Sandia National Labs and Oak Ridge Y-12 National Security Complex are #5 and #13 respectively.
One of the troubling issues related to this is the apparent lack of monitoring primarily on the state level. While this area is critical to Indiana, the article says "Mittal Steel is one of several big industries in northwest Indiana whose water permits have not been updated for years, though Indiana regulators are working to clear that backlog." You'd think they would want to pay closer attention.
Top 20 water polluters
December 12, 2007
Last Sunday the Chicago Tribune ran another article in their occasional series on the problems with major polluters at the south end of Lake Michigan. They compiled a national list of the 20 worst factories that "pose biggest health risk to local communities." I won't reproduce the whole list (You can read the article online. It's worth it.) but there are some interesting plants listed.U.S. Steel Gary Works (#3) is the worst on Lake Michigan, and new permits for that plant have been the topic of U.S. EPA hearings this week. BP's Whiting Refinery (discussed frequently in these entries) is farther down at #17. The Indiana Harbor Belt is the greatest concentration of names with those two and Mittal Steel USA's Indiana Harbor West plant at #14.
A number of traditional process plants appear on the list, primarily power stations, a couple refineries, and the odd chemical plant. No surprise there. What is interesting is that two U.S. DOE labs are on the list. Sandia National Labs and Oak Ridge Y-12 National Security Complex are #5 and #13 respectively.
One of the troubling issues related to this is the apparent lack of monitoring primarily on the state level. While this area is critical to Indiana, the article says "Mittal Steel is one of several big industries in northwest Indiana whose water permits have not been updated for years, though Indiana regulators are working to clear that backlog." You'd think they would want to pay closer attention.
Posted by Peter Welander on December 12, 2007 | Comments (0)
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