AVX Appeals Myrtle Beach Contamination Ruling

Capacitor manufacturer AVX Corp. has filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Circuit Court for the Fourth Circuit of a ruling that it failed to show the United States shares responsibility for cleanup costs at a superfund site (AVX Corp. v. Horry Land Co.). The U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina held May 12 that testimony by the federal government’s experts on trichloroethylene (TCE) and hydrogeology established that the government was not the source of contamination on a former military air base in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Wooten found that a historian’s opinion on the ...