against a pipe fitting factory that’s been flagged by smog regulators for emitting carcinogenic toxins into the air of the East Oakland neighborhood around it, the 116 year-old factory announced it’s shutting down the facility and moving all its operations to Texas.
“After much deliberation, we came to the difficult decision that relocation of our operations from Oakland was the only course of action to ensure we can continue to serve our customers with high-quality pipe and pipe fittings,” said AB&I President, Michael Lowe, in a press release Friday. “This decision is especially difficult because of the impact to long-serving and hard-working team members and their families.
“Changing standards create business uncertainties that make it difficult to continue our operations in California,” Lowe said in March of last year as the company announced the move of the molding operations. The lawsuit also alleges that AB&I Foundry has not taken steps to reduce its hexavalent chromium emissions, as required, and it followed an earlier legal challenge filed in December by environmental justice group Communities for a Better Environment that similarly accuses AB&I Foundry of flouting state law that requires it to notify the community when emissions of the toxins rise above a certain threshold.
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