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“A federal judge ordered the Chemours Chemical Company on Thursday to immediately stop discharging unlawful levels of cancer-causing chemicals into the Ohio River from the company’s Washington Works plant.
‘Those pollutants endanger the environment, aquatic life, and human health,’ U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin wrote in the order. ‘Today, that unlawful, unpermitted discharge stops.’
The West Virginia Rivers Coalition asked Goodwin in February to require the former DuPont, now Chemours, Washington Works facility to immediately comply with its permit limits after violating it for more than five years. The coalition’s request came after the group initially sued Chemours in December over the violations.” …