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Pollution FUD

Posted on April 19, 2008

A NYTimes article sent by a friend, about companies illegally dumping biodiesel processing waste: After residents of the Riverbend Farms subdivision noticed that an oily, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior River, which runs through their backyards, Mark Storey, a retired petroleum plant worker, hopped into his boat to follow it upstream to its source.It turned out to be an old chemical factory that had been converted into Alabama s first biodiesel plant, a refinery that intended to turn soybean oil into earth-friendly fuel... It's unfortunate that some of these biodiesel pro...

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