[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Hensley Field, Dallas, TX

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dallas taps multinational law firm for Hensley Field settlement

By Megan Cardona
KERA News(North Texas NPR)
November 13, 2024 

Dallas City Council approved an agreement on Wednesday to contract with multinational law firm Covington & Burling LLP to help enforce a settlement agreement over the development of the former U.S. Naval Air Station at Hensley Field.

The city will pay Covington & Burling $300,000 in periodic payments to also help with litigation against the federal government related to environmental contamination at the site.

Hensley Field sits on more than 700 acres of land on the border of Dallas and Grand Prairie. Once the home of the Naval Air Station Dallas, the U.S. Navy leased Hensley Field from the city of Dallas in 1949 until 1999.

By the end of the Navy's lease, Hensley Field had a "broad array of hazardous substances" in "meaningful levels," according to court documents.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.keranews.org/business-economy/2024-11-13/dallas-taps-multinational-law-firm-for-hensley-field-settlement

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