Sparrows Point outfall 021. Nearby groundwater had benzene levels 158,000 times greater than federal drinking water standards. From a November 2009 Reutter story.
Photo by: Mark Reutter
Baltimore Brew contributor Mark Reutter will be on the radio today to talk about the Severstal steel mill at Sparrows Point.
He’ll be on Mark Steiner’s show on 88.9 FM WEAA at 6 p.m., along with Turners Station activist Maxine Thompson, who will talk about the human cost of pollution at ‘”The Point.” They have invited the Chesapeake Bay Foundation and the Maryland Department of the Environment to send representatives to the show, as well, we hear.
UPDATE: The Bay Foundation is sending attorney Jon Mueller, their vice president for litigation. MDE is sending along a statement.
On Friday, Reutter will join Karen Hosler for the 1 pm weekly Midday News Review, on 88.1 WYPR FM.
In both cases, he’ll be talking about the most recent Sparrows Point news – the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s lawsuit against the mill’s current owner, Severstal – and about the stories he’s been doing for the past year on the iconic, problem-plagued facility.
