[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: AVX blames Myrtle Beach Air Force Base (SC)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

S.C. company tries to connect Air Force to pollution

By DAVID WREN (Myrtle Beach Sun News)
The State (SC)
October 13, 2008

A Myrtle Beach electronics component manufacturer says the U.S. military 
might be responsible for toxic contamination at its property and a 
surrounding neighborhood.

AVX Corp. makes the claim in documents filed in federal court in Florence.

The claim is refuted by environmental tests, state health officials, 
depositions and minutes of a government agency meeting.

The company also wants a federal judge to issue a protective order so 
the manufacturer's employees won't have to answer questions about how 
the contamination occurred. A ruling on that request could come as soon 
as Oct. 21.

...


AVX's request is an attempt to make the federal government share in 
cleanup costs. A decision could come as early as the Oct. 21 court 
hearing in Florence.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thestate.com/breakingbiz/story/553553.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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