RIVERSIDE- (July 3, 2008)California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. and District Attorney Rod Pacheco today sued TXI International, a Riverside cement plant, for exposing people to the potent carcinogen hexavalent chromium without providing warnings to the community as required by law. “Dust, which contained elevated levels of cancer-causing hexavalent chromium, escaped into the air in violation of state law,” Attorney General Brown said. “California is suing the company to get them to stop their practices which cause chromium exposure.” In late 2007, the South Coast Air Quality Management District discovered that ambient quantities of hexavalent chromium, a potent carcinogen, were up to 50 times the level that would trigger a mandatory public warning under Proposition 65, the state’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act. Investigators traced the source of the chromium to dust piles on a four acre plot at a cement factory operated by TXI International. Since 2006 the comp...