| From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
| Date: | Mon, 28 May 2012 05:56:47 -0700 (PDT) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Litigation at International Harvester site, Canton, Illinois |
Canton has spent more than $1 million in legal fees since 2007 By TERRY BIBO Peoria Journal Star (IL) May 28, 2012CANTON - Ever-expanding email inboxes are obvious time-wasters - and not-so-obvious taxpayer money-wasters. "Canton is just one example of this," says attorney Phillip Lenzini, who has written and lectured about the unintended consequences of the quest for government transparency. While it is difficult to break out specifics, the city has spent more than $1 million since 2007 on legal fees, mostly linked to one ongoing court battle. Canton cleaned up part of a brownfield site downtown that was left behind by the former International Harvester plant. Although IH successor Navistar International Corporation acknowledged responsibility, it has not repaid the multi-million- dollar clean-up costs. ... For the entire article, seehttp://www.pjstar.com/news/x1347548590/Canton-has-spent-more-than-1- million-in-legal-fees-since-2007-much-of-it-from-responding-to- Navistars-FOIA-requests -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545 Fax: 650-961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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