San Francisco State University
Children Of Lead
The source of the toxic emissions is a metal smelting plant, which is owned by the Missouri-based Doe Run Corporation. At the time of the purchase in 1997, Doe Run agreed to modernize the plant and lower emissions to acceptable levels by 2006. In 2004, the company requested a five-year extension on their environmental remediation plan. Currently the technology in the smelter still dates to the early part of last century.
