[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES, RADIATION: West Lake Landfill (MO) lawsuit

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

West Lake Landfill owner sues Mallinckrodt to help pay for nuclear waste cleanup 

By ELI CHEN
St. Louis Public Radio (MO)
October 24, 2018

Bridgeton Landfill LLC, owner of the West Lake Landfill, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt to help pay for the cost of cleaning up radioactive waste at the federal Superfund site.

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a $205 million remediation plan for the West Lake Landfill last month. The strategy involves excavating about 70 percent of the site’s radioactivity and capping the rest. The costs of cleaning up Superfund sites fall on parties responsible for the contamination. For the West Lake Landfill, that includes Republic Services’ subsidiary Bridgeton Landfill, Rock Road Industries, the Cotter Corporation and the U.S. Department of Energy.

The suit, filed in federal court in St. Louis, seeks a jury trial to compel Mallinckrodt to pay the costs of cleaning up the West Lake Landfill.

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For the entire article, see
http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/west-lake-landfill-owner-sues-mallinckrodt-help-pay-nuclear-waste-cleanup#stream/0

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Lenny Siegel
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Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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