mike97760
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Saw this in the Eugene, Oregon newspaper this morning. It was about a company there that made creo for 70 years, folded, and left a mess. I lived there for years and had no idea it was there, but it makes sense beings that so many telephone poles come from Oregon.
Pollute. First, J.H. Baxter exposed residents to air polluted with a cocktail of naphthalene, ammonia, methanol, acetaldehyde and a much longer list of hazardous chemicals. At the same time, the factory contaminated groundwater with pentachlorophenol (a carcinogen) and soil with dioxin (a carcinogen). State and federal agencies are attempting to get a handle on what it will take to clean-up the widespread polluted mess.
Pollute. First, J.H. Baxter exposed residents to air polluted with a cocktail of naphthalene, ammonia, methanol, acetaldehyde and a much longer list of hazardous chemicals. At the same time, the factory contaminated groundwater with pentachlorophenol (a carcinogen) and soil with dioxin (a carcinogen). State and federal agencies are attempting to get a handle on what it will take to clean-up the widespread polluted mess.