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Chemetco

Index Chemetco

Chemetco was formerly one of the largest United States refiners of copper from recycled or residual sources. [1]

62 relations: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Anode, Aquifer, Asarco, Bankruptcy, Business ethics, Cadmium, Cathode, Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code, Chief executive officer, Chouteau Island, Clean Air Act (United States), Clean Water Act, Conspiracy (criminal), Copper, Cultural Survival, Delaware General Corporation Law, Denis L. Feron, Dioxin, Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds, Edwardsville, Illinois, Electrolysis, Environmental issues in the United States, Environmental justice, Felony, Floodplain, Flue-gas stack, Furan, Hartford, Illinois, Illinois, Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, Injunction, Lead, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Liquidation, Madison County, Illinois, Making false statements, Mississippi River, Mitchell, Illinois, Nunavut, Ownership, Oxygen, Pesticide, PH, Polychlorinated biphenyl, Polychlorinated dibenzofurans, Polyvinyl chloride, Privately held company, Public health, Recycling, ..., Recycling in the United States, Roxana, Illinois, Solvent, Superfund, Technical standard, Tenorite, Tin, United States, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Geological Survey, Wood River, Illinois, Zinc. Expand index (12 more) »

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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Anode

An anode is an electrode through which the conventional current enters into a polarized electrical device.

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Aquifer

An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).

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Asarco

ASARCO LLC (American Smelting and Refining Company) is a mining, smelting, and refining company based in Tucson, Arizona, which mines and processes primarily copper.

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Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or other entity that cannot repay debts to creditors.

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Business ethics

Business ethics (also known as corporate ethics) is a form of applied ethics or professional ethics, that examines ethical principles and moral or ethical problems that can arise in a business environment.

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Cadmium

Cadmium is a chemical element with symbol Cd and atomic number 48.

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Cathode

A cathode is the electrode from which a conventional current leaves a polarized electrical device.

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Chapter 7, Title 11, United States Code

Chapter 7 of the Title 11 of the United States Code (Bankruptcy Code) governs the process of liquidation under the bankruptcy laws of the United States (in contrast, Chapters 11 and 13 govern the process of reorganization of a debtor in bankruptcy).

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Chouteau Island

Chouteau Island, situated approximately due north of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and approximately south of the confluence of the Missouri River and Mississippi River, is one of a cluster of three islands: Chouteau Island, Gabaret Island, and Mosenthein Island.

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Clean Air Act (United States)

The Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.) is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.

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Clean Water Act

The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.

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Conspiracy (criminal)

In criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime at some time in the future.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Cultural Survival

Cultural Survival (founded 1972) is a nonprofit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, which is dedicated to defending the human rights of indigenous peoples.

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Delaware General Corporation Law

The Delaware General Corporation Law (Title 8, Chapter 1 of the Delaware Code) is the statute governing corporate law in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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Denis L. Feron

Denis Lucien Emile Feron (born March 22, 1928) is former owner and Chief Executive Officer of the Midwestern copper smelter, Chemetco.

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Dioxin

Dioxin may refer to.

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Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds

Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds (DLCs) are compounds that are highly toxic environmental persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

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Edwardsville, Illinois

Edwardsville is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States.

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Electrolysis

In chemistry and manufacturing, electrolysis is a technique that uses a direct electric current (DC) to drive an otherwise non-spontaneous chemical reaction.

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Environmental issues in the United States

Environmental issues in the United States include climate change, energy, species conservation, invasive species, deforestation, mining, nuclear accidents, pesticides, pollution, waste and over-population.

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Environmental justice

Environmental justice emerged as a concept in the United States in the early 1980s.

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Felony

The term felony, in some common law countries, is defined as a serious crime.

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Floodplain

A floodplain or flood plain is an area of land adjacent to a stream or river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.

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Flue-gas stack

A flue-gas stack is a type of chimney, a vertical pipe, channel or similar structure through which combustion product gases called flue gases are exhausted to the outside air.

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Furan

Furan is a heterocyclic organic compound, consisting of a five-membered aromatic ring with four carbon atoms and one oxygen.

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Hartford, Illinois

Hartford is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States, near the mouth of the Missouri River.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Environmental Protection Agency

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) of the state of Illinois is the primary body concerned with the protection of the environment for the state.

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Injunction

An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element with symbol Pb (from the Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Lewis and Clark Expedition

The Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.

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Liquidation

In United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and United States law and business, liquidation is the process by which a company is brought to an end.

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Madison County, Illinois

Madison County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Making false statements

Making false statements is the common name for the United States federal crime laid out in Section 1001 of Title 18 of the United States Code, which generally prohibits knowingly and willfully making false or fraudulent statements, or concealing information, in "any matter within the jurisdiction" of the federal government of the United States, even by merely denying guilt when asked by a federal agent.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Mitchell, Illinois

Mitchell, Illinois is an unincorporated census-designated place in Madison County, Illinois.

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Nunavut

Nunavut (Inuktitut syllabics ᓄᓇᕗᑦ) is the newest, largest, and northernmost territory of Canada.

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Ownership

Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land/real estate or intellectual property.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Pesticide

Pesticides are substances that are meant to control pests, including weeds.

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PH

In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.

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Polychlorinated biphenyl

A polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) is an organic chlorine compound with the formula C12H10−xClx.

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Polychlorinated dibenzofurans

Polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) are a family of organic compounds with one or several of the hydrogens in the dibenzofuran structure replaced by chlorines.

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Polyvinyl chloride

Polyvinyl chloride, also known as polyvinyl or '''vinyl''', commonly abbreviated PVC, is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer, after polyethylene and polypropylene.

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Privately held company

A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.

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Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting human health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".

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Recycling

Recycling is the process of converting waste materials into new materials and objects.

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Recycling in the United States

This article examines recycling in the United States.

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Roxana, Illinois

Roxana is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States.

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Solvent

A solvent (from the Latin solvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute (a chemically distinct liquid, solid or gas), resulting in a solution.

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Superfund

Superfund is a United States federal government program designed to fund the cleanup of sites contaminated with hazardous substances and pollutants.

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Technical standard

A technical standard is an established norm or requirement in regard to technical systems.

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Tenorite

Tenorite is a copper oxide mineral with the simple formula CuO.

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Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from stannum) and atomic number 50.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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Wood River, Illinois

Wood River is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemetco

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