[CPEO-BIF] "Minneapolis {Minnesota] residents sue General Mills over pollutant [TCE] in soil"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Minneapolis residents sue General Mills over pollutant in soil

by Jeremy Olson
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
December 6, 2013 

Two class-action lawsuits were filed against General Mills on Thursday by residents in the Como neighborhood of southeast Minneapolis, where state-ordered testing has shown troubling concentrations of the pollutant TCE in soil below their homes.

Updated results have been published as of Friday morning for 58 of roughly 200 homes in the target area, southwest of a former General Mills facility where solvents containing TCE (trichloroethylene) were dumped decades ago and filtered into soil and groundwater. Thirty-seven have turned up with higher-than-acceptable levels of the chemical.

Testing has been completed at another 16 properties, but results haven’t been released, and has been arranged but not completed at another 65 properties, according to a map published by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), which is overseeing the cleanup project. (See http://tinyurl.com/mfpy9hr.)

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For the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/local/234663311.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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