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Article: INTERSTATE TOXIC-WASTE TRADE RAISING STINK.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 31, 1991
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Byline: Phil Brown Staff writer
Mardell Smith has a message for New Yorkers: Stop sending toxic waste to Arkansas.
"It's not a fair thing to do to bring waste from all over and dump it in my small town," she complained last week.
Smith, a 54-year-old homemaker, lives just two miles from a hazardous-waste incinerator in El Dorado, Ark., which has been cited for sundry environmental violations.
In 1989, New York state companies, including several in the Capital District, sent 3,800 tons of waste to the plant, owned by Ensco Inc.
El Dorado is just one of many faraway towns that end up with New York's hazardous waste as part of an ...