2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:08:47 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Radio Materials site, Attica, Indiana
 
Lawsuit filed in Attica contamination case

Justin L. Mack
Lafayette Journal and Courier (IN)
March 26, 2009


ATTICA -- Two Attica families have filed a class action lawsuit against Kraft Global Foods Inc. seeking compensatory and punitive damages as a result of water and air pollution linked to a contaminated manufacturing site.

The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Susan and Patrick Stoll and Mary and Charles Bowles, alleges that chemicals known to cause cancer in humans are among the pollutants being released into groundwater and air from a site formerly operated by P.R. Mallory & Co.

According to the lawsuit, "Mallory no longer exists as a legal entity; through a series of mergers and name changes it has become (Kraft Global Foods)."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.jconline.com/article/20090326/NEWS03/903260346

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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