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Semarnat: Ferromex Should Remedy Chemical Spill Damage in Sonora

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Naco, Son., Operator Ferromex, a subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, will have to assume environmental remediation resulting from the spill that occurred after the derailment of a train in the border municipality of Naco, reported the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), noting that there were more than 70,000 liters of sodium hydrosulfide – that is, 11 thousand liters more than previously reported – that ended up in the stream o…

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Naco, Son., Operator Ferromex, a subsidiary of Grupo Mexico, will have to assume environmental remediation resulting from the spill that occurred after the derailment of a train in the border municipality of Naco, reported the Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat), noting that there were more than 70,000 liters of sodium hydrosulfide – that is, 11 thousand liters more than previously reported – that ended up in the stream o…

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Grupo México, owner of Ferromex, said that the derailment of the freight train registered last July 25 in the municipality of Naco, Sonora, was caused by a landslide caused by the intense rains in the region and did not leave people injured or health damage. Through a statement, the company reported that the work to contain the runoff of sodium hydrosulfide and recover the copper concentrate spilled already concluded, so the passage of the train…

The environmental damage caused by a spill of more than 70,000 liters of sodium and copper hydrosulfide, which occurred when a freight train from Grupo México Transportes (Ferromex) derailed last weekend in the municipality of Naco, Sonora, must be repaired by the company. In a statement issued on Friday, the Federal Attorney General’s Office for Environmental Protection (Profepa) said that, regarding Ferromex’s responsibility, “it ordered the p…

The accident caused a chemical spill, but no one was injured.

Ferromex attributed the freight train derailment that occurred on July 25 in the municipality of Naco to a landslide caused by heavy rains, while the Sonora Health Department reported that the three workers evaluated after participating in the cleanup efforts did not require hospitalization. These statements were issued on Friday, hours after the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) announced that the company must submit an e…

Despite reaching record profits of more than 18 billion dollars, the conglomerate of Germán Larrea allocated a minimum percentage to environmental protection; a few days ago, one of its companies spilled 59 thousand liters of chemicals in Sonora. POLITICAL ANIMAL Despite having achieved record sales of 18 billion 176 million dollars in 2025, Grupo Mexico devotes a minimum fraction of its resources to environmental protection. The conglomerate, r…

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dossierpolitico.com broke the news on Friday, July 31, 2026.
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