Carmeuse Lime, Inc. Buffington
210
estimated deaths a year
That's one death for every 2 days of its pollution.
From 11 air pollution, 200 climate change.
$347Min damage a yearplus $90M–$269M to pull its CO2 back out of the air
48new asthma cases a year
0.4cancers a yearlung cancers from soot
19ER visits and hospital stays a year
88,000lbs of toxic chemicals released
900,000tons of greenhouse gases a yearas much as 210,000 cars
1water permit violations last yeardischarges into Lake Michigan, already listed as polluted
$125Kin fines over 5 yearsout of compliance 12 of the last 12 quarters
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Estimates for one year of pollution (2023), in 2024 dollars: model estimates from EPA data and published methods, not counted deaths. Deaths could be 5.5 to 620. How we estimate