Dutch Find More Pollutants Around Tata Mill Than Company Reports
A Tata Steel plant in Ijmuiden, Netherlands.
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The Dutch public health agency found higher concentrations of metals and carcinogens around Tata Steel Ltd.’s IJmuiden factory in the Netherlands than the company’s own figures, potentially adding more pressure on the company to clean up its plants sooner than anticipated.
“The measured quantities of metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) are much higher than had been expected on the basis of calculations with data from” the company’s environmental annual reports, according to a Friday report published by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, or RIVM. “These emissions data do not appear to have been supplied in full,” the report said.