A retraction becomes necessary when something a writer proffers as fact turns out to be untrue, a crow I have not eaten often as I tend to measure my words.  But while facts can’t change circumstances can, so despite all efforts I find I must now suffer the embarrassment of a retraction .      Last week I blogged that Sherwin-Williams was illegally operating their plant in Rochester, Pennsylvania, which is not the statement I need to retract .  Nor will I need to retract my statement that...

Once government and the lawyers arrive in Rochester, a map will show the vast spread of Sherwin’s plume across Western Pennsylvania. Now as much a part of that region’s topography as the Appalachian Mountains and Allegheny Plateau, the chemicals of Sherwin’s greed forever covering that earth.   The plume from years of PFAS venting may stretch as many as 50-miles from Sherwin’s stack, depending on airflow patterns and topography.  In the range Pittsburgh, Penn Hills, Youngstown (OH) and Canton...

With an insidious disregard for both humanity and the law, Sherwin-Williams CEO Heidi Petz has exposed thousands of Pennsylvanians to the hazards of her process.  Leaking and venting a cocktail of waste ladened with the neurotoxin Methyl Methacrylate (MMA).  And other Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances or PFAS, also known as forever chemicals .    The effects of exposure to MMA are instant: a sensitizer which changes your immunological profile immediately after induction.  If you’re lucky...