While Eramet has received the public blame for elevated levels of manganese in the air, it appears as though MIE may share some of the responsibility and their rogue emissions may help to explain surprisingly high readings at air monitoring stations in Vienna and Boaz.

 

State and federal agencies are planning to work together to collect samples from MIE and other area facilities that handle manganese to gain more information about the unanticipated spikes observed in West Virginia.

 

Yesterday the ATSDR released their latest set of results from air monitoring stations placed in the area to detect manganese emissions. You can find the results online at http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/sites/washington_marietta/index.html