Georgia Gulf hit with EPA fine
Atlanta Business Chronicle

Georgia Gulf Chemicals and Vinyls LLC will spend $2.9 million to correct chemical discharges and will pay a civil penalty of $610,000 to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality, the agencies reported Monday.

Atlanta-based Georgia Gulf (NYSE: GGC) will make the corrections at its Aberdeen, Miss., polyvinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturing facility. It will install an air stripper to reduce volatile organic compounds by removing vinyl chloride from process wastewater. This, and other environmental measures, will prevent the discharge of up to 12,000 pounds of vinyl chloride per year from entering an unlined surface impoundment.

Georgia Gulf has also agreed to comply with specific Clean Water Act and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act requirements.

Most vinyl chloride is used to make PVC plastic and vinyl products. EPA has classified vinyl chloride as a Group A human carcinogen. Vinyl chloride exposure has been linked to adverse human health effects, including liver cancer, other liver ailments, and neurological disorders.

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