Professional Soldiers ® - View Single Post

**Pete** · 11-03-2013, 20:33

From the story

"...Doe Run made significant efforts to reduce lead emissions from the smelter, but in 2008 the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued new National Ambient Air Quality Standards for lead that were 10 times tighter than the previous standard. Given the new lead air quality standard, Doe Run made the decision to close the Herculaneum smelter..."

Sucks to live next to it. Sucks to have your kids go to a school next to it. Sucks to have parts of the town off limits due to lead pollution.

But that is a choice everyone in the local area made. Yeah, it sucks for the town and local area.

So now the only Primary Lead Smelter in the US is closed.

So how does it all balance out?

Are the "secondary" smelters next?

11-03-2013, 20:33	#13
Pete Quiet Professional Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Fayetteville Posts: 13,080	From the story From the story "...Doe Run made significant efforts to reduce lead emissions from the smelter, but in 2008 the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued new National Ambient Air Quality Standards for lead that were 10 times tighter than the previous standard. Given the new lead air quality standard, Doe Run made the decision to close the Herculaneum smelter..." Sucks to live next to it. Sucks to have your kids go to a school next to it. Sucks to have parts of the town off limits due to lead pollution. But that is a choice everyone in the local area made. Yeah, it sucks for the town and local area. So now the only Primary Lead Smelter in the US is closed. So how does it all balance out? Are the "secondary" smelters next?
Pete is offline