In the October 26 issue of The Sun News, there is a very interesting article pertaining to AVX and the pollution problem and its relationship to S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). According to the article, DHEC has never required testing of pollution control equipment at AVX. DHEC has not tracked AVX pollution and is not certain how much hazardous air toxins are being emitted into the atmosphere. DHEC allows AVX to use the "honor system" when reporting facts and figures regarding pollution. Their reasoning is that "AVX would never falsify those figures and risk negative publicity."
This is incredibly naive. Expecting a company to follow the rules is no excuse to not have a method in effect to make sure that's what they are doing. It seems as though DHEC has forgotten their responsibilities to their other publics. Perhaps AVX is providing DHEC some sort of incentive to give them as much leeway as they have been....
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