[CPEO-BIF] Radio Materials (Kraft) settlement, Attica, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Attica residents split settlement


by SOPHIA VORAVONG
Lafayette Journal & Courier (IN)
May 24, 2011
ATTICA -- When Mary and Charles "Ben" Bowles decided to take on Kraft  
Global Foods Inc. in March 2009 over allegations that a long-closed  
factory contaminated groundwater and created carcinogenic vapors in  
their neighborhood, "it was never about the money," she asserts.

Two years and three months later, even after learning that the  
conglomerate recently agreed to pay a $8.1 million settlement, the  
retired couple still says money was not the focal point of their  
class-action lawsuit.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.jconline.com/article/20110525/NEWS/105250313/Attica- 
residents-split-settlement?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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