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El Dorado Plant Cited for Air Pollution
   posted 3:57 pm Sat November 17, 2007 - El Dorado
Federal officials have ordered an El Dorado plant to shut down that regulators say was violating the Clean Air Act. D and D was cited for storing hazardous waste on the property without proper authority.

The Environmental Protection Agency says D and D was storing about 380,000 pounds of carbon black on the site.

Channel 7 News myTAKE - What's Your Opinion?The material is used to reinforce rubber and plastic products. The company had been storing the material in tanks that were not designed for it, causing volatile organic compounds to leak into the air.

D and D leases the El Dorado property from Columbian Chemicals Company in Marietta, Georgia.
Latest Comment on El Dorado Plant Cited for Air Pollution
pearcy devil
Stuff like this is the same reason your gas prices are high. We've overregulated, greened, EPAed, and sierraed ourselves right out of the loop. yeah shut the plant down, send the employees home. Same with all of the refineries and coal fired power plants and oil wells. let's just shut this place down and ride our bikes. why couldn't the EPA assist them in finding the proper container instead of shutting them down. I'll bet the correct containers will be so expensive and regulated that they will lay someone off just to afford the retool. You people just don't think about how all of this regulation and green hype is affecting our economy and our way of life. While your riding your bikes and hybrids, China is going to mow you down on their way to the top of the chain. We're losing ground.

     
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