EPA Finds Worrisome Levels Of Toxic Air Pollutants At Ethanol Plant
Factories that convert corn into the gasoline additive ethanol are releasing carbon monoxide, methanol and some carcinogens at levels "many times greater" than they promised, the government says.
In an April 24 letter to the industry's trade group, the Environmental Protection Agency said the problem is common to "most, if not all, ethanol facilities."
Recent tests have found VOC emissions ranging from 120 tons a year, for some of the smallest plants, up to 1,000 tons annually, agency officials said.
It is said that we didn't inherit this land from our ancestors, we're borrowing it from our children. Is a legacy of polluted water and the air we need to breathe filled with cancer causing agents what we will leave our children?
The Rogersville plant is the wrong place for a quick fix deal that will leave a toxic legacy lasting for generations.
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