[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Kerr-McGee successor sues PEPCON successor (NV)

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Environmental trust wants reiumbursement for water treatment plant

By Blake Apgar 
Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV)
June 24, 2021

The Nevada Environmental Response Trust spent millions of dollars to set up and operate a temporary water treatment facility near the Las Vegas Wash with the goal of removing a hazardous chemical from groundwater before it could reach Lake Mead.

Now, the trust asserts that American Pacific Corp., the corporate successor to PEPCON, was primarily responsible for the contaminated area that it ultimately cleaned up, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court.

“The purpose of this lawsuit is to recover costs that the Trust incurred treating hazardous substances that originated from the Defendant’s PEPCON site,” attorney Josh Reid, who is representing the trust, said in a statement. The lawsuit said the trust has incurred more than $36 million in costs.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/environmental-trust-wants-reiumbursement-for-water-treatment-plant-2386134/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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