[CPEO-MEF] Hercules loses Agent Orange case (Jacksonville, AR)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hercules loses high court appeal of $120 million award

By Greg Stohr
Bloomberg News
News Journal (DE)
April 23, 2007

Hercules Inc. lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to avoid having to pay more 
than $120 million for cleanup of a site where the company once made 
Agent Orange, the defoliant linked to cancer among Vietnam War veterans.

The justices, without comment, today let stand a lower court ruling that 
requires Hercules to reimburse the U.S. government for much of the 
cleanup costs near an abandoned chemical plant in Jacksonville, 
Arkansas. The high court also rejected a related appeal by Chemtura 
Corp., which was ordered to pay $3.6 million.

Hercules, based in Wilmington, Delaware, has already set aside $123.5 
million in anticipation of having to pay the award. The company said in 
a regulatory filing in February that the Supreme Court probably wouldn’t 
agree to take up the case.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070423/BUSINESS/70423013

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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>
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