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For years and even decades, tens of thousands of people in northwest Seminole County, Lake Mary and Sanford have been drinking water containing a toxic industrial chemical at varying concentrations, the Orlando Sentinel has found. The chemical, 1,4-dioxane, is deemed likely to cause liver and kidney cancer and other illnesses by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Labeled a contaminant of .
Michigan’s Attorney General says terms of a new consent judgment have been reached between the state’s Department of Environment Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) and Gelman Sciences. Dana Nessel says it moves forward plans to remediate Gelman’s 1,4, toxic dioxane plume. But, as WEMU’s Cathy Shafran reports, a local activist group is questioning the plan.
The latest sampling from Gelman’s 1,4 dioxane plume in Washtenaw County is again raising concerns from the head of the Coalition for Action on Remediation of Dioxane that the plume is not under control.
Election Day is tomorrow, and one of the races to be decided is who will be Ann Arbor's next mayor. Local attorney Eric Lipson is running against incumbent Christopher Taylor as an independent candidate. He joined WEMU's David Fair to discuss his priorities if voted into office.