From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sat, 24 Jan 2015 00:27:32 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Anadarko and Kerr-McGee settle with EPA |
Nevada to receive $2B for cleanups from Anadarko settlement with U.S. EPA By Nikki Bowers KLAS TV-8 News (Las Vegas, NV) January 23, 2015 HENDERSON, Nev. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday it reached a settlement with Anadarko and Kerr-McGee Friday. The settlement secures payments of $5.15 billion to resolve claims that the defendants fraudulently transferred assets in part to evade their liability for contamination at toxic sites around the country. Of this total, approximately $4.4 billion will be used to clean the environment. This is the largest sum ever awarded in this type of a bankruptcy-related environmental settlement with the federal government. “Communities from the Navajo Nation to Henderson, Nevada are finally getting the funding needed to take crucial steps toward cleaning up toxic legacies that pollute their environment,” said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA's Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest. “After decades of trying to avoid their environmental responsibilities, Anadarko is paying billions of dollars to immediately fund these and other critical environmental cleanups.” … For the entire story, see http://www.8newsnow.com/story/27927104/nevada-to-receive-2b-for-cleanups-from-anadarko-settlement-with-us-epa -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope Street Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545 Fax: 650-961-8918 LSiegel@cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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