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CINCINNATI -- "An elementary school has been shut for 4 years because of carcinogenic fumes from a nearby plastics plant, and the lost classroom space is crowding other schools. The Three Rivers Board of Education says Ineos ABS and Lanxess Corp. polluted the air at Meredith Hitchens Elementary School so badly the Ohio EPA told the superintendent that rooftop monitors 'revealed that two chemicals from the plastics plant across the street were drifting over the school at levels that made the risk of cancer 50 times higher than what the state considers acceptable,'" Melissa Thomas, Courthouse News Service.
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COLUMBUS -- "Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray last week joined the U.S. Department of Justice in filing a Consent Decree, including a $3.1 million settlement, with INEOS ABS (USA) and the former Lanxess Corp., operators of a plastic resins manufacturing facility located in the village of Addyston near Cincinnati. The joint state/federal air pollution enforcement action, taken on behalf of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. EPA, spells out specific pollution control and monitoring the company must implement and specifies penalties for potential future violations. 'The people of Addyston have watched and listened for years, as concerns were raised about toxins from this plant polluting the air they breathe,' said Attorney General Cordray. 'The financial penalty helps us to enforce state and federal laws, but the pollution control and monitoring called for in the settlement are more important because they will protect against further harm to the community,'" Toledo Legal News.
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WASHINGTON, DC-- "President-elect Barack Obama's choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency promised Wednesday that she would deploy federal regulators to check air quality around schools in response to a USA TODAY investigation that identified hundreds of schools that appeared to be in toxic hot spots... USA TODAY identified 435 schools in locations where the air outside appeared more dangerous than at an Ohio elementary school shut down three years ago. That school, Meredith Hitchens Elementary, was closed after Ohio officials found carcinogens outside at 50 times what the state considers acceptable," Brad Heath and Blake Morrison, USA TODAY.
The school is across the street from the factory, across old US 50. It was Monsanto my entire childhood into teenage years, then Bayer, and it gets passed around. The plant is simply enormous. I grew up within 4 miles of it.
The probe started in earnest when the area started to smell strange:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/school-air-hitchens.htmThe neighborhood was famous for its "Swamp Gas". Of course it is full of poor rednecks so nobody gives a shit believe it or not. It is really shitty.