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Calif. City Seeks to Declare Emergency to Speed Oil Site Cleanup
2013-07-24 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Carson city officials are seeking to declare a local emergency in an effort to pressure the state and an oil company to speed the cleanup of a contaminated housing tract where residents have been advised not to eat vegetables or fruit from their yards and to limit contact with the soil. Testing in 2008 revealed that the soil and groundwater beneath many of the 285 homes in the Carousel tract, which sits atop a former Shell Oil tank farm, contain benzene and petroleum. The oil company, which...
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