[CPEO-BIF] Mississippi "AG Hood sues over Grenada, Water Valley contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AG Hood sues over Grenada, Water Valley contamination

by Anna Wolfe 
Jackson Clarion-Ledger (MS)
April 10, 2017 

Helen McKinney only learned recently that the Grenada auto manufacturing plant where she worked nearly 30 years had been using and allegedly dumping a cancer-causing toxin.

"I feel that we should be compensated for working in that type of environment and conditions and them not letting us know what type of risk we were at," McKinney said.

After outcry from residents and a U.S. congressman, the state attorney general's office has sued companies in Grenada and Water Valley that allegedly dumped toxic chemicals, including Trichloroethylene (TCE), polluting the groundwater and air. The office filed both lawsuits Friday.

"Knowing that it is out there, it makes me scared," said Johnnie Williams, a resident of the Eastern Heights subdivision right next to the Grenada Manufacturing facility.

The suit alleges the Grenada facility operators, which manufactured hubcaps, dumped TCE directly onto the land on which the subdivision was built.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2017/04/10/ag-hood-sues-over-grenada-water-valley-contamination/100282610/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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