South Carolina’s New Indy paper mill, a factory that has drawn tens of thousands of odor complaints from its neighbors, releases more of a powerful neurotoxin into the air than any other major paper plant in the country, a new report says.
The amount of mercury leaving New Indy’s York County plant is detailed in a study that examines air pollution at the nation’s largest 185 paper and pulp mills.
A major finding is that many paper mills aren’t fully reporting the amount of greenhouse gases they release into the air because of a loophole in federal law. The report says they are burning fuels that release too much air pollution…