No need to worry about the Niagara Falls Goodyear plant

Buffalo, NY (WKBW) -Goodyear Niagara Falls makes immediate changes to how much from a chemical product that causes the cancer it emits in the surrounding community. Ortholuidine emissions, related to the cancer of the bladder in humans, are reduced by a three-factor.

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This comes a couple of weeks after the 7 i-e-echipe news has been explained Goodyear release a plumage to this chemicalup to seven times the current standard. This standard was established in 2021.

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The interim commissioner of Dec Sean Mahar says that the criminal mapping of his agency is a projection of the worst scenario.

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Mahar: It is not the real scenario of the real world we see here.

DRANTCH: Dec has mapping for scenarios in the real world?

Mahar: Well, this is what we build and we will continue to ask the company to do as they put in new emission controls, to take additional sampling and then we will know and understand better how this facility works in these new measures that we are We ask.

DRANTCH: So, to be clear, do you say that there is no risk to the public at this time, based on Goodyear ortho-toluidine emissions?

Mahar: Based on the evidence we have seen in review with our air quality experts and the state health department in New York, there is no risk for the community from the levels we see.

DRANTCH: So if Goodyear reduces its ortho-toluidine emissions with a three-being factor to create a risk?

Mahar: Again, I should make our experts in the air quality of the State Health Department explain how they look at the air concentration orientation values ​​and how this is interpreted from the point of view.

Mahar could not provide specific evidence that chemical emissions do not threaten the community, even though its own department issued a consent order and fined Goodyear $ 15,000 last month. This command stipulates that Goodyear makes changes to emission controls.

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DRANTCH: Dec allowed Goodyear to adapt to what has already been issued in the air so far.

Mahar: No, because I had these institutional checks and I was responsible for it and built it in the authorization process.

DRANTCH: Now change the course.

Mahar: Well because I asked them to change the course

DRANTCH: Years later.

Mahar: As the standards change as the conditions change, our application and regulations change to ensure that we meet these requirements and that a unit meets these requirements.

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Mahar says the state acted “aggressive” against Goodyear. But the correspondence between Goodyear and Dec, obtained by the 7 teams of teams I News, this process has been running for years.

Dec sent a letter to Goodyear, warning him to violations, in July 2023. Only now, January 2025, Goodyear is obliged to take measures.

“What you see is that our application actions are playing and leading those or in accordance with compliance with our regulations,” said Mahar.

DRANTCH: But if this is true and, if this is actually the case, why did it last so long for a consent order against Goodyear?

Mahar: Well, there is a process that we must undertake.

DRANTCH: I do not mean to say that it was a low forehead here, but DEC acted faster when it came to the squirrel of a porn star than he did with Goodyear.

Mahar: No, I think these are two different scenarios and, obviously, our application changes according to the situation we presented.

At the end of October, Dec attacked a house outside Elmira, confiscating a pet squirrel at Mark Longo. He made the famous squirrel on social networks.

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Longo, an interpreter only for Fans, said days later that the squirrel was euthanized.

Mahar said this is not a comparison of apple apples, explaining Dec has taken appropriate measures against Goodyear, despite the two years between the notification of violation and execution.

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DRANTCH: Where is the disconnection here?

Mahar: Well, I don’t think there’s a disconnection. It is a steps approach to applying an installation. As our rules and regulations change, we evaluate the permits to which these rules are applied and we make sure that they comply with these standards. There are times when we have to work discreetly, directly with the company to implement these actions before we can tell the community exactly why we respond.

DRANTCH: Well, how unfair is a community dealing with toxic air emissions?

Mahar: Well, again, it is not unfair to the community. Indeed, what we are trying to do is show that we use all the tools in our tool box to respond to the facility.

The 7 News team reached the state’s health department, trying to gather a kind of proof that the community is not in danger. After e-mails forward and back, a spokesman finally said The News I-Team, Team I,

Goodyear says he is employed to make the investments and implement the actions presented in agreement with dec. A spokesman continues to say that the provisional equipment will be installed and works in two months.