Tire fuel battle fired up in Vermont

Plan to use tires to fuel paper mill in NY has Vermont up in arms.

SHOREHAM, Vt. (Reuters) – A campaign in Vermont to stop a paper mill in neighboring New York from burning scrap tires as fuel has galvanized one of the greenest U.S. states into one of its biggest environmental battles.

But after a two-year fight, the state appears to be on the verge of defeat.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to approve a request by International Paper Co., the world’s largest forest products company, to burn shredded tires with oil at its Ticonderoga mill in New York, near Vermont’s border, in a two-week trial next year.

Environmentalists and residents fear northeasterly winds will blow toxins from the tires into Vermont, which boasts the cleanest air in the Northeast.

Reuters