by - November 12, 2013 10:43 pm
Officials with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality faced angry Fort Smith residents Monday night (Nov. 12) as they presented official recommendations to Whirlpool on how to clean up a…
by - October 22, 2013 4:35 pm
Fort Smith City Directors hoping for some sort of October surprise that would have given them broad legal powers to enforce the city's wishes and demands on Whirlpool in their…
by - October 15, 2013 9:10 pm
The Fort Smith Board of Directors wants more time to consider a recently proposed plan by Whirlpool to clean up pollution at and around the company’s shuttered manufacturing plant. Prior…
by - October 14, 2013 7:01 pm
Even though Whirlpool Vice President of Communications and Public Affairs Jeff Noel told the Fort Smith Board of Directors last week that the area above a plume of trichloroethylene (TCE)…
by - October 8, 2013 10:18 pm
Representatives from Whirlpool appeared before a special study session of the Fort Smith Board of Directors on Tuesday (Oct. 8) to present an update on efforts to clean up trichloroethylene…
by - October 7, 2013 6:36 pm
The city of Fort Smith, including the city's Board of Directors, got their first look at what will be discussed at tomorrow night's (Oct. 8) special study session, when Whirlpool…
by - September 20, 2013 4:22 pm
On the same day the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality submitted final responses to Whirlpool's challenges to the agency's annual groundwater monitoring report, the city of Fort Smith has confirmed…
by - September 17, 2013 6:55 pm
The latest twist in the saga resulting from Whirlpool's disclosure that it contaminated its manufacturing site and a surrounding neighborhood with trichloroethylene (TCE), a potentially cancer-causing degreasing chemical, has arrived…
by - August 9, 2013 7:49 pm
Environmental consultants for Whirlpool have challenged the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality's assertion that a toxic plume of trichloroethylene (TCE) near the company's former manufacturing facility in Fort Smith could…
by - August 9, 2013 2:37 pm
More residents and property owners will soon join two lawsuits previously filed against Whirlpool that seek relief for property damage caused by potentially cancer-causing trichloroethylene (TCE) that Whirlpool admits leaked…
by - August 8, 2013 4:26 pm
Even though Whirlpools' final remedy work plan to clean up toxic, potentially cancer-causing trichloroethylene (TCE) has not yet been approved by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, it has not…
by - August 2, 2013 3:11 pm
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality has called into question a claim made by Whirlpool in their 2012/2013 Groundwater Monitoring Report, dated June 24 of this year. In the report,…
by - July 17, 2013 4:38 pm
Environmental consultants hired by Whirlpool submitted a final remedy work plan to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality yesterday (July 16) to address pollution of trichloroethylene (TCE) in the area…
by - July 2, 2013 11:23 am
A document received by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality from consultants on behalf of Whirlpool details the company's plan to deploy chemicals to treat the trichloroethylene (TCE) on the…
by - June 26, 2013 5:49 pm
According to a report submitted Monday (June 24) to the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality, environmental consultants for Whirlpool claim that a plume of potentially cancer causing trichloroethylene (TCE) on…
by - June 19, 2013 4:36 pm
That didn't take long. Less than 24 hours after The City Wire published an article questioning why colleagues of environmental activist Erin Brockovich had not returned phone calls from the…
by - June 18, 2013 4:29 pm
They did not have to come. They chose to come after Fort Smith residents reached out and asked for help. But now there are questions about where Erin Brockovich's environmental…
by - June 2, 2013 11:11 am
If one were to look around, one might revel at the active and ever-changing events emblazoned in our world. Crisis and calamities stun us, while occasional good fortune favors us….
by - May 23, 2013 6:28 pm
On the same day (May 23) lawsuits were filed seeking damages following Whirlpool's admission this year that it had leaked trichloroethylene (TCE), a potentially cancer-causing chemical, into properties north of…
by - May 23, 2013 1:09 pm
What started off as an attempt by Whirlpool to ban the drilling of groundwater wells in the neighborhood north of its former manufacturing facility due to it admitted trichloroethylene (TCE)…
