I bet it wasn’t found by workers out fixing the roads because....well....it just ain’t happening in Michigan.
I understand that the government, EPA knew this stuff was in that building for years and did nothing until it leaked out of the building and onto a public highway?
Another great job by the EPA
This is a job for Toxic Avenger!
The only super hero from New Jersey!
Green ooze? Maybe it’s time to call Ghostbusters.
Sorry, at my age, I should know better than to eat at Taco Bell.
So they thought his business was enough of a dangerous toxic waste site to lock him up, but not dangerous enough to clean it up or even monitor it.
I would say the State is responsible at this point.
I’ve worked around hexavalent Cr2O3. Had an allergic reaction after a while. It accretes in the body and raises hell. Good stuff to avoid.
Cause cancer and can be used “as pigments in dyes paints, inks, and plastics” or as “an anticorrosive agent added to paints primers or other surface coatings.
When do we get our t-shirts that say Lab Rat?.
Green stuff? Michigan must use ground up Taxpayer Money to pave their roads.
Either that or Soylent Green that didn’t pass Quality Control Standards making it safe for Human Consumption.
The owner was already in jail for operating a hazardous waste storage facility, illegal I’m guessing. Sounds like they jailed the owner and left the chemicals in the building.
10 years at hard labor would discourage folks like that.
Hexavalent chromium is yellow, trivalent chromium is green.
My guess is someone was trying to do some onsite, illegal treatment.
Shades of Erin Brockovitch.
Clinton’s trail.
