Judges have ordered the closure of the Atrasina chemicals plant in San Nicolás, a city located in the northern end of Buenos Aires province. The plant is owned by the North American multinational Atanor, Argentina’s second-largest producer of the controversial herbicide glyphosate. In the first official recognition of the firm’s wrongdoings, Judge Facundo Puente ordered the preventive closure of the plant. During a raid last week, court officials found the plant was not compliant with environmental regulations on waste disposal. Judge Facundo Puente gave local police powers to investigate the plant after it ignored a previous injunction to change its waste disposal policy.

Source: The Bubble September 08, 2016 14:48 UTC