Tire industry scrambles to replace 60-year-old chemical hazardous to salmon: 'One of the biggest environmental issues that the world hasn’t known about'

Tire industry scrambles to replace 60-year-old chemical hazardous to salmon: 'One of the biggest environmental issues that the world hasn’t known about'

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U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from West Coast Native American tribes that want it banned because it kills salmon as they return from the ocean to their natal streams to spawn. The Yurok tribe in California and the Port Gamble…

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