[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Flats (CO) legal fees

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Lawyer fees mount in legal wrangling over Flats
Taxpayers pay bulk of tab in sweetheart deal


By Ann Imse
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
April 21, 2007

Companies that made nuclear weapons at Rocky Flats polluted Colorado's 
land and air, but taxpayers have picked up most of the legal tab for the 
resulting lawsuits and investigations.

Since 1989, the government has spent $78 million defending Rockwell 
International and Dow Chemical.

That's because it promised for decades to cover any damages arising from 
the dangerous process of building nuclear weapons during the Cold War.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5496703,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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