Today’s New York court ruling claiming the proposed tire burn at the International Paper Ticonderoga facility is "basic data collection and research” is astounding.   IP isn’t conducting research; they’re proposing to burn tires without the appropriate pollution control devices in place. 

I am urging the Attorney General to pursue the available appeal routes.  In addition, we are prepared to take legal action at the federal level if it becomes necessary.  

If International Paper is going to burn tires for fuel at its Ticonderoga facility – which is just a stone’s throw from Vermont’s border across Lake Champlain– they should be required to install the best and most appropriate pollution control technology, period.

Currently, the Ticonderoga paper mill does not have industry standard pollution control devices in place.  Without such pollution control devices, the public health of Vermonters would be at risk from toxic particulates and the same material would degrade the state’s air and water quality.  I simply will not tolerate that.

I remain prepared to exhaust all available legal avenues to prevent this potentially toxic tire burn.