Clean Air targets DuPont

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Jessica Bagley

TOWN OF TONAWANDA — Two local organizations called on the DuPont Yerkes plant in the town to improve its environmental controls and reduce its air emissions at a press conference Tuesday.

“Simply put, this is about protecting the health and well-being of Western New Yorkers,” said Liz Smith, of the Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health. “We believe the investment to protect workers and the public from unnecessary exposure is worth it.”

Representatives from the council and the Clean Air Coalition stood outside the plant on Tuesday to voice their demands: that the chemical plant improve its monitoring program for methyl methacrylate and vinyl fluoride, improve its leak detection programs and install several pieces of equipment that would reduce the plant’s emissions.

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