Creosoting


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Creosoting

The process of injecting creosote into timber as a means of increasing its durability when it is to be exposed to wetting and drying.
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Now the creosoting company and the neighbors who fear the fumes coming from its plant are left in the lurch.
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Jennison made his remarks after Baxter employees and neighbors spent more than an hour addressing the LRAPA board about the Roosevelt Boulevard creosoting factory and its air emissions.
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They're demanding that the agency push Baxter to reduce substantially the emissions from its Roosevelt Boulevard creosoting factory.
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