2017 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 10:30:04 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "General Mills will no longer clean up TCE pollution in Como, " Minneapolis, Minnesota
 
[This may be a site where the federal rule for considering vapor intrusion in Superfund listing, now in abeyance under the Trump administration, would make a difference. - LS]

General Mills will no longer clean up TCE pollution in Como
The company says remaining pollution is coming from other sites.

By EMUN SOLOMON
Minnesota Daily
April 3 2017

General Mills will end efforts to mitigate contamination it left in the Southeast Como neighborhood following the dismissal of a class action lawsuit against the company.

Last month — as more Trichloroethylene, or TCE has been found throughout the neighborhood — the company told the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency it had fulfilled its obligations for its share of the pollution in the neighborhood and claimed remaining pollution is from other sources. 

General Mills also demanded the Southeast Como site be unclassified as a state superfund site, which designated it as a polluted area that merits state money for cleanup. 

However, the MPCA is working to add the site to the federal version of this list, said Hans Neve, MPCA superfund program supervisor. [emphasis added]



For the entire article, see
http://www.mndaily.com/article/2017/04/general-mills-ends-commitment-tce-como

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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