US Ecology had expressed an interest in shipping the waste to Nevada last year after it caused a scare in Cambodia, where the Taiwan company, Formosa Plastics Corp., had taken it for disposal...An EPA official in San Francisco, John McCarroll, said mercury levels in some samples from the 7,233 tons of waste reached 20,000 parts per million -- 77 times more than what is allowed for disposal in U.S. hazardous waste dumps... Full Story
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal
