Ex-councilman makes deal for removing hazardous materials
January 10th, 2020 by Ric Hanson
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – A former Sioux City councilman has made an agreement with Iowa environmental regulators on removing potentially hazardous materials that accumulated from his electronics recycling business. The state attorney general’s office sued Aaron Rochester in 2018, saying more than 17 million pounds of the material was being stored at facilities in Iowa and Nebraska. The Sioux City Journal reports that Rochester has agreed to annually ship at least three semitrailer loads of used or broken cathode ray tubes and/or containers of leaded glass to a federally approved treatment, storage and disposal facility.