Superfund

Shell, Army to pay $35 million for area projects in Colorado’s largest environmental settlement to date

05/29/2008 -- (DENVER) – Colorado Attorney General John Suthers and Governor Bill Ritter today announced the settlement of Colorado’s quarter-century-old claim for natural resource damages at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal Superfund site.

Rocky Mountain Arsenal: Photo by Patrick Michael McLeod (CC)    » read more »

SAN FRANCISCO, 05/19/2008 – Motorola, Inc., Siemens Corp. and GlaxoSmithKline will collectively pay a $500,000 civil penalty for system failures that led to the release of trichloroethylene (TCE) into the public drinking water system in Scottsdale, Ariz., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced today.

The settlement resolves violations of the North Indian Bend Wash consent decree, filed in 2003, which occurred when TCE above contamination limits was released from the Miller Road Treatment Facility on two separate occasions, in October 2007 and January 2008.    » read more »

10/31/2007 -- A settlement pending approval before a federal bankruptcy court will direct almost $65 million to agencies involved in restoration efforts at the Tar Creek Superfund Site, Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson and Oklahoma Secretary of the Environment Miles Tolbert announced today.    » read more »

June 11, 2007 -- OLYMPIA - Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna today hailed the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to allow individuals and corporations who voluntarily clean up hazardous waste sites to recover costs from other liable parties as a victory for the state and the environment.

In a unanimous decision in U.S. v. Atlantic Research Corporation, the Court affirmed that the federal Superfund law authorizes individuals and companies who voluntarily incur costs to clean up hazardous waste contamination to recover costs from other persons who share liability.    » read more »

Bank to institute landmark training program after abandonment of Orange County chemical company

ALBANY, NY (May 30, 2007) – In one of the nation’s first Superfund cases against a bank, New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and HSBC Bank USA, N.A. have reached a settlement with the bank paying penalties and reimbursing the state for costs incurred while responding to an abandoned chemical manufacturing facility in Wallkill.    » read more »