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Assignment Peru: Poison in La Oroya
American mining company Doe Run bought a metalurgical plant in La Oroya, Peru, promising to clean it up after tests showed 99 percent of children born after the take-over had incredibly high level of lead contamination. Ten years later, the company has asked for extensions on the deadlines.
Tags: lead poisoning; air pollution; Doe Run; Hunter Farrell; SEC filings; La Oroya; Peru;
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Lead Astray
The Doe Run Co. is one of the largest lead producers in the world, owning smelters in Herculaneum, MO and evwn one in La Oroya, Peru.The smelter in Peru has not been cleaned up as promised, and the emissions from the smelter are endangering the lives of nearby families. Nearly half of the children near the smelter have mental defiencies, 10 percent of kids under the age of 7 have enough lead in their blood to need medical treatment.
Tags: St. Louis; Lead; Peru; Environment; Pollution; poison; EPA; cancer
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La Oroya
KMOV reporters investigated a smelter in La Oroya, Peru, run by a St. Louis-based Doe Run Company. La Oroya has been heavily contaminated by the smelter and almost every child in the small community has tested positive for lead poisoning.
Tags: Environment; pollution; lead poisoning; Peru; Doe Run Company; metal smelter; Andes