The Environmental Protection Agency has announced a $40 million settlement that will fund cleanup at a polluted landfill site in Rhode Island (U.S.A. v. ACS Industries, Inc. et al., R.I. Dist. Ct., 1:16-cv-00665, 12/22/16).
About 100 defendants are named in the settlement for either generating waste or transporting waste to the Peterson/Puritan Superfund site, which is spread over 980 acres in Cumberland and Lincoln, R.I.
The landfill’s operator, J.M. Mills Inc., is defunct.
The defendants include Benny’s Inc., Corning Inc., Honeywell International, General Electric, Kaman Aerospace Corp., the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Raytheon Co., ...
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