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Lamar Miller

EPA to clean up Carter Carburetor site - St. Louis American: - 0 views

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Carter EPA site

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  • The EPA will remove PCBs and TCE from subsurface soils and remove PCBs in two on-site buildings.
  • “This clean-up is absolutely critical because so many children are potentially at- risk across the street at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club,” said U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO).
  • the agency plans a thermally enhanced extraction of two toxins: trichloroethylene (TCE), a chlorinated industrial solvent, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a cancer-causing chemical once used in electrical transformers that were disassembled at a building on the site.
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  • The citizen advocacy group is calling for cleanup goals be expanded to cover all areas impacted by Carter Carburetor, the treatment technology to be proven to work on PCBs on similar sites and at similar concentrations before use at the St. Louis site, the risk assessment scenario expanded to include children of all ages and the cleanup plan protect the health of children and area residents.
  • Adeola Adewale on 15 Jun 11
     
    This article tells about the EPA's plans to clean up the Carter Carburetor site.
  • Lamar Miller on 30 Jun 11
     
    Plans
Tasha Dickerson

Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) - 0 views

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shared by Tasha Dickerson on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Tasha Dickerson on 28 Jun 11
     
    Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of manmade chemicals. They are oily liquids
David Hoffelmeyer

Carter Carburetor Timeline - 0 views

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EPA Superfund PCB weak attribution

shared by David Hoffelmeyer on 14 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • David Hoffelmeyer on 14 Jun 11
     
    Most recent Post-Dispatch article on the carburetor plant. It lacks attribution, but it helps contextualize the story of the plant's downturn.
David Hoffelmeyer

Fate of old carburetor plant is focus of debate - 0 views

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EPA PCB TCE Plant Owner State senator credentialed expert multiple credible sources

shared by David Hoffelmeyer on 14 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • David Hoffelmeyer on 14 Jun 11
     
    October 2010 article that discusses the original plan to demolish the Carter plant.
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