Re: [CPEO-BIF] Stanford University (California) sues companies over contamination at housing site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

See also https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2018/03/01/stanford-sues-hp-companies-agilent-over-toxic-contamination

LS

On Feb 26, 2018, at 8:22 PM, Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> wrote:

Is this why Facebook is such a toxic dump? HP, HPE sued for 'leaking chems' into office site
Stanford uni fumes at Palo Alto soil contamination cleanup bill

By Shaun Nichols
Register (UK)
February 27, 2018

Stanford University is suing the descendants of Hewlett-Packard and Agilent for allegedly contaminating a property in Palo Alto, California, with toxic chemicals.

The Silicon Valley uni has demanding the IT giants pick up its hazmat cleaning bill to scrub the site of industrial solvents and other pollutants.

The property, 1601 S. California Avenue, was leased by the school to HP from 1970 through 2005. Agilent, a HP spinoff, used the building beginning in 1999 until 2005. In 2015, HP split into HP Inc and HPE.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/27/stanford_hp_hpe_hazmat/

For my April, 2016 report on this site, see
http://www.cpeo.org/brownfields/reports/N-Z/SRP.pdf


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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Lenny Siegel

Executive Director

Center for Public Environmental Oversight

a project of the Pacific Studies Center

P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042

Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 

<lsiegel@cpeo.org>

http://www.cpeo.org

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