[CPEO-BIF] "Tell City [Indiana] and 36 families file lawsuit against GE"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tell City and 36 families file lawsuit against GE

By Jill Lyman
WFIE TV-14 News (Evansville, IN)
October 22, 2020 

TELL CITY, Ind. - Tell City, along with 36 Tell City families have filed a lawsuit against GE.

Their counsel, Kahn, Dees, Donovan & Kahn, LLP and Huber, Goffinet & Hagedorn, says the lawsuit came after negotiations that ended in March 2019 broke down over the summer.

The law firm says the public was first informed of GE’s environmental contamination by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management’s (“IDEM”) public notice in early 2017.

Then in late 2017 during GE’s environmental investigations, they say trichloroethylene (“TCE”) was found to be migrating into groundwater beyond the boundary of GE’s facility.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.14news.com/2020/10/22/tell-city-families-file-lawsuit-against-ge/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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