Norlite Facility News Today

The use of “baghouse dust” in making aggregate stone has become the latest flashpoint...

Residents and community leaders are asking the state Department of Environmental Conservation to enforce changes on how the Nortlite Plant in Cohoes can use its incinerator.

COHOES, N.Y. — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos recently announced the findings of the agency’s comprehensive soil and water sampling initiative of communities surrounding the Norlite facility in the Spindle City. DEC conducted the science-driven sampling initiative to help determine if contaminants are present in communities surrounding the Norlite facility as a result of its past combustion of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) th...