Abstract
Morton International, a subsidiary of Rohm and Haas, will pay $22 million in penalties to settle charges that it violated air, water, and waste regulations at a Mississippi plant. It will also invest $16 million in projects to enhance the environment, including upgrading a community sewer system. The case began in 1996 when an Environmental Protection Agency inspector went to Morton's adhesives and sealants production facility in Moss Point, Miss., near the Escatawpa River. Chuck D. Barlow, general counsel for the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), tells C&EN the inspector found that numbers on wastewater discharge monitoring reports had been falsified before they were sent to regulators. The discovery prompted MDEQ, EPA, and Morton to dig deeper into the plant's compliance with environmental standards. The plant illegally handled and disposed of hazardous wastes at its on-site landfill and violated its permit for deep injection wells by pumping unauthorized wastes down those wells, ...
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