My point is if there were health implications they would have manifested themselves by now. If there are no health problems then I am wary of the motivations behind forcing a cleanup. I think this will be nothing but a shakedown of Duke Energy.
The EPA ran one of these scams in my hometown. We had a copper smelter that had operated for the last 100 years and the EPA comes in and says the soil is contaminated with “dangerous” levels of lead and arsenic. Now keep in mind there have been no health anomalies, lead/arsenic related or otherwise and people have lived around it for 60 years. So the smelter is forced to pay clean up the site using EPA approved remediation companies (gee I bet there’s no corruption there) AND directly paying the EPA to fund salaries of EPA employees to “supervise.” I know the second part because one of the federal scum would slime around my local watering hole and bragged about his great works. The smelter shut down when copper prices dropped and then thanks in part to EPA scaremongering the City fought tooth and nail to keep it closed. This bankrupted the company that owned the smelter.
Now here is where it gets fun. As soon as the company money dried up this super urgent cleanup ground to a halt. Eventually the city took over the land and still no clean up. They even knocked over the smoke stacks kicking up untold amounts of supposedly lead laden dust and not a peep from the Feds. The whole thing was nothing more than extortion of the smelter company.
If you are talking about El Paso, that town is so filthy it would be hard to tell if the contamination came from the smelter or from Mexico just beyond it. God I hate that place!
There may be health problems you’re not aware of. Toxins can accumulate in your body for a long time before you start to feel ill effects and even then they might not be discovered because no one bothers to test for them. Cause of death: liver failure. How did that happen? It doesn’t matter. He’s dead
Nheard your account about the ASARCO plant from El Paso natives.
The air pollution in the Permian Basin has worsened since NAFTA was passed and the Juarez side gained more factories and powerplants. Prevailing winds from the southwest.