[CPEO-BIF] CTS Asheville (North Carolina) loses fight against listing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Court rejects company's attempt to avoid EPA cleanup

Jeremy P. Jacobs, E&E reporter
Greenwire
July 8, 2014

Federal judges today rejected an electronic component maker's effort  
to remove its controversial former North Carolina manufacturing  
facility from U.S. EPA's Superfund cleanup program.

In a sharply worded 23-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for  
the District of Columbia Circuit deconstructed CTS Corp.'s challenges  
to EPA's 2011 decision to add the company's former Asheville property  
to the National Priorities List.

Judge Patricia Millett, a recent Obama appointee to the court, said  
each of the Elkhart, Ind.-based company's objections to EPA's  
inclusion of contamination at three wells near the property is  
"without merit."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060002484

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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