[CPEO-BIF] Kerr-McGee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Anadarko Fights Ailing Preacher in $25 Billion EPA Toxic Lawsuit

By Tiffany Kary
Bloomberg Markets Magazine
May 1, 2012

Reverend Steven Jamison recalls the February day 13 years ago when he  
was digging ditches to replace culverts at his Maranatha Faith Center  
in Columbus, Mississippi. As he switched from a shovel to an  
excavator, an oily black substance began to fill the trench. It  
smelled like turpentine, and the deeper he dug, the more he saw,  
Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its June issue.

...

The U.S. Department of Justice, in a lawsuit on behalf of the  
Environmental Protection Agency and other environmental and state  
agencies, says Kerr-McGee fouled 2,772 sites, including Columbus,  
during seven decades of producing chemicals, fertilizer and plutonium  
pellets. The lawsuit, scheduled for trial beginning May 15, seeks $25  
billion to clean up the toxins and compensate tort claimants -- or  
the people who say they’ve been personally harmed.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-01/anadarko-fights-ailing- 
preacher-in-25-billion-epa-toxic-lawsuit.html

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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