chromium contamination Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:47:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 EPA Hasn’t Found Contamination From Chromium Spill in Lake Michigan, Yet… https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lake-michigan-chromium-contamination-20170416/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lake-michigan-chromium-contamination-20170416/#comments Tue, 18 Apr 2017 19:47:41 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=63611 Last Tuesday a U.S. Steel facility in Portage, Indiana released hexavalent chromium into the Burns Waterway. This waterway is within 100 years of of Lake Michigan, and has resulted in a number of beach closings, though the EPA hasn’t confirmed any contamination on public beaches. Although local groups have claimed to have found traces of […]

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