School playground across from the Lanxess Plant (Steve Lerner)
ADDYSTON — “A plastics company cited several years ago for releasing harmful gasses into the air around an elementary school will donate $750,000 to the school district; in exchange the district is dropping a lawsuit filed late last year against the company and the plastics plant’s current owner.
Three Rivers Local Schools chose to evacuate and close Meredith Hitchens Elementary School on River Road in 2005 after the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency advised against teaching children there because of dangerous emissions coming from the plastics plant across the street, including high levels of butadiene, a known human carcinogen.
In December the 2,000-student district filed a lawsuit against the plant’s current owner Ineos Abs USA Corp. and former owner, Lanxess Corp.”
— Carrie Whitaker, Cincinnati Enquirer
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