| From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
| Date: | Wed, 4 Mar 2015 17:57:08 -0800 (PST) |
| Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
| Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] TCE lawsuit against General Mills, Como neighborhood, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Class Certified Suit in Against General Mills By ROSE BOUBOUSHIAN Courthouse News Service March 4, 20156 (CN) - A federal judge certified a class of Minneapolis residents who say General Mills polluted air and groundwater with 15,000 gallons of carcinogenic solvents that have seeped into homes. Karl Ebert, Carol Krauze, and Jackie Milbrandt sued General Mills Inc. in Federal Court, alleging it released trichloroethylene - a chemical historically used to extract vegetable oils from plant materials - into the area around its former facility in Minneapolis. The plaintiffs say the carcinogenic chemical vapors threaten home and business owners in the city's Como neighborhood, a historically industrial, but now primarily residential, area. … For the entire article, see http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/03/04/class-cetified-suit-in-against-general-mills.htm -- 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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