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State agencies confirm they inspected Washington mill, but not the tank or its safety records, before rupture killed 11

Regulators were at the site for pollution and worker safety oversight, but left above-ground tank integrity checks to the company.

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EPA, state won’t say what’s true in Washington mill pollution record

After a tank rupture killed 11 workers at a Longview paper mill, the Washington Department of Ecology said a public EPA database was wrong about the facility’s pollution record. But neither Ecology nor the EPA will say exactly what was wrong, what was real or when the public record will be fixed. As of publication, […]