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Fiery explosions overnight at a hazardous materials plant owned and run by Environmental Quality Industrial Services forced 16,000 residents in the middle of the night from their homes. EQ Industrial Services is based in Wayne, Michigan. Michael Ferrantino, CEO has given Michigan politicians quite a bit of money. Scores of people were hospitalized by the disaster caused by EQ Industrial Services in Apex, North Carolina. Roiling smoke and flames boiled 150 feet into the night air. A toxic plume of smoke drifted through the streets sickening everyone it came in contact with. Chemicals including cadmium, chromium, mercury and hazardous organic materials were burned at high temperature and cast into the air in minute droplets easily absorbed into the skin and through the mucous membrane in the nose and through the mouth and even ears of residents. EQ Industrial Services is associated with a company called Wayne Disposal. The EPA has Super Fund sites in Michigan. Those are locations so polluted that they are an immediate and present danger to the local population not to mention the environment. At one time the EPA declared that the company that owned one of the Super Fund sites in Wayne County, Michigan, must immediately clean it up. They allowed that company truck material from that landfill to another one that they owned. Nice arrangement for the company and the EPA but the problem is still here. In Apex, North Carolina, I understand that the chemicals that burned ignited some aviation fuel tanks nearby which made the situation worse. I don’t know who owns the aviation fuel tanks but apparently EQ provides aviation services at other locations in the United States. I would thoroughly investigate what happened in Apex and keep an eye on what happens next. I am not making any allegations, I am just suggesting that be aware of what is going on. I am disappointed that so many politicians have taken money from this company. The damage that imported waste and spills and fires and other accidents have caused is indeterminate. There are major problems with PCB’s in Ann Arbor but no one can tell if the chemicals came from a high pressure toxic waste injection well or the facilities of EQ. The impact on our children and our future cannot be underestimated. To have one company control so much of this dangerous business is hazardous enough. When that company starts making mistakes that rush sixteen thousand people out of their houses in the middle of the night then something has to be done. I do not believe that people who handle items that can make you sick should be making decisions about healthcare. Do you? I do not believe that people who handle items that can poison your water should be making decisions about water quality. Do you? I do not believe that people who handle items that can destroy the ability of your children to have normal children themselves should be making decisions about the environment and they certainly should not be sticking their nose into education. Do you? I do not believe that people whose activities lower real estate values should be influencing state laws about property. Do you? I suggest you familiarize yourself with the people and companies that are involved. The folks in Michigan that are taking money from this company are :
Representative McCotter 1632 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515 202.225.8171 tel 202.225.2667 fax
Senator Bruce Patterson PO Box 30036 Lansing, MI 48909-7536 By Phone: (517) 373-7350
Representative Phil LaJoy N0785 House Office Building P.O. Box 30014 Lansing, MI 48909-7514 Fax: 517-373-5939 Phone: 517-373-2575
Commitee to Elect Mark J. Abbo PO Box 822 Northville, Michigan 48167 734-927-1987
United States Senator John Thune United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 202-224-2321
Representative Mike Rogers 133 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Phone: (202) 225-4872 Fax: (202) 225-5820
Representative Candice Miller 228 Cannon House Office Building Washington D.C. 20515 202.225.2106 (F) 202.226.1169
Locations that EQ works in :
Corporate Office 36255 Michigan Ave. Wayne, Michigan 48184 (734) 329-8000
Michigan Disposal Waste Treatment Plant 49350 North I-94 Service Drive Belleville, Michigan 48111 (800) 592-5489
Wayne Disposal, Inc. 49350 North I-94 Service Drive Belleville, Michigan 48111 (800) 592-5489
EQ Resource Recovery, Inc. 36345 Van Born Road Romulus, Michigan 48174 (734) 727-5500
EQ Industrial Services, Inc. 2701 North I-94 Service Drive Ypsilanti, MI 48198 (734) 547-2500
EQ Detroit, Inc. 1923 Frederick Detroit, MI 48211 (313) 923-0080
EQRR Distribution Center 14000 Stansbury Ave. Detroit, Michigan 48227 (313) 273-7504
EQIS Indianapolis Transfer and Processing 4000 West 10th Street Indianapolis, Indiana 46222 (317) 247-7160
EQIS Emergency Response 2701 North I-94 Service Drive Ypsilanti, MI 48198 (734) 547-2500
Northeast Facilities and OfficesEQ Northeast, Inc. 185 Industrial Road Wrentham, MA 02093 (508) 384-6151
Southeast Facilities and OfficesEQIS Atlanta Transfer and Processing 5600 Fulton Industrial Blvd. Atlanta, Georgia 30336 (404) 494-3520
EQ Augusta, Inc. 3920 Goshen Industrial Blvd. Augusta, GA 30906 (706) 771-9100
EQ Florida, Inc. 7202 East Eighth Ave. Tampa, FL 33619 (800) 624-5302
EQIS North Carolina 1005 Investment Blvd. Apex, NC 27502 (919) 363-4700
EQ Mobile Recycling, Inc. W. Independence Blvd. Mt. Airy, NC 27030 (336) 719-0058
EQ Airport Services - Pittsburgh P.O. Box 12286 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15231 (412) 472-1007 (412) 472-1044
EQ Airport Services - Salt Lake City P.O. Box 16109 Salt Lake City, Utah 84116 (801) 531-4679 (801) 531-4677
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