Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Ford Plant Leaks Chemicals Causing both Environmental and Financial Repercussions

In Michigan,  a Ford Motor Company was recently discovered to have been leaking two cancer causing chemicals, TCE and TCA. Both chemicals are used to take oil and grease off parts but are also extremely detrimental if they come within unprotected human contact.  An environmental consultant who came to test the plant estimated there to be about 75 million gallons of contaminated groundwater.  Although Ford claims full responsibility for this environmental hazard, estimating the cost to be around $ 57 million to clean up, shouldn't there be further consequences or safety procedures to ensure that this type of careless and potentially life threatening misstep doesn't occur in the future?  More information on this issue can be found here.

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