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EVERGREEN LANDS ON EPA’S LIST OF TOP TEN ARK. POLLUTERS
By Wes Clement/OF THE COMMERCIAL STAFF
Saturday, May 2, 2009 9:33 PM CDT
Evergreen Packaging’s Pine Bluff mill recently appeared on an Environmental Protection Agency list of top 10 polluters in Arkansas.
EPA reported the state released 43.8 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the environment during 2007. The figure does not include chemicals transported to other locations for disposal.
Each year the agency reports on the amount of toxic chemicals released by industry into the environment.
The Pine Bluff mill was listed as the sixth greatest source of industrial pollution in Arkansas during 2007.
Businesses on the top 10 list were the source of more than half of the state’s toxic releases. The list includes:
Great Lakes Chemical of El Dorado, 4.6 million
Nucor-Yamato Steel of Blytheville, 4.1 million
Stratcor of Hot Springs, 3.6 million
Nucor Steel of Blytheville, 3 million
Domtar Industries of Ashdown, 2.5 million
Evergreen Packaging of Pine Bluff, 2.2 million
Entergy’s Independence Steam Electric Station at Newark, 2.1 million
Clean Harbors of El Dorado, 1.8 million
Georgia-Pacific at Crossett, 1.6 million
River Valley Animal Foods of Scranton, 1.6 million
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