Illinois Personal Injury Lawyer Blog
Who’s protecting the residents of Cicero and Stickney, IL, from the tons of toxic chemical emissions migrating from the massive, 36-acre Koppers coal tar plant at the corner of Laramie and Pershing roads? The danger is that these chemicals from Koppers are blowing into nearby residential neighborhoods and that the residents are breathing them. And they don’t even know it.
But I don’t see anyone protecting the residents against this threat. I don’t see anyone testing, for example, throughout these neighborhoods, and regularly, to see what concentrations of these toxic chemicals are getting to the residents and winding up in their lungs and bloodstreams. I don’t see that the residents are being warned of the chemicals’ dangers.
All I see is that Koppers’ emissions have contributed to the air in the community surrounding the plant being some of the most toxin-filled air in the country. Koppers knows this. So does the EPA. But the residents don’t.