The Recession is Closing Dirty Factories (Click Here)

Siberia's Lake Baikal--the oldest, largest, and deepest freshwater lake in the world--is the home of the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, which has been belching foul-smelling sulfates into the air and chlorides, phenols and other chemicals into the lake since it was built during the Cold War.  The pollution killed plants, crabs and fish and threatened the world's only freshwater seal.  Environmentalists have bee trying to shut down the mill since 1964, getting nowhere.  But when greens failed. the global recession succeeded all too well. In November, the plant ceased production.   To read more, click the title of this blog item.