EPA Orders Ford Motor to Protect Migratory Birds, Fish and Wildlife

    CHICAGO, Jan. 24 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) Region 5 recently ordered Ford Motor Co. (Dearborn, MI), to protect
migratory birds, fish and wildlife from oil waste found in the Rouge River
boat slip adjacent to its property in the Rouge Manufacturing Complex.
    EPA inspected the site on June 2, 2000, and found oily waste, more than
two dozen dead fish and a dead migratory bird in the Rouge River boat slip.
A second inspection by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Coast Guard on
November 9 confirmed that migratory birds, fish and wildlife were being
exposed to oil waste used by Ford in the boat slip.

    Under Federal law, EPA controls certain wastes from their production to
their final disposal and can issue immediate orders to protect human health
and the environment.