Feds Sue Sherwin-Williams Over $2M Superfund Cleanup Tab

Sherwin-Williams Co. owes the federal government $2 million as part of the cleanup of New Jersey hazardous substance disposal sites, a new Superfund lawsuit alleges.

The government’s complaint, filed Jan. 30 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, seeks recovery of its costs in remediating lead, arsenic, and other waste disposed from Sherwin-Williams’s former plant in Gibbsboro, N.J.

The cleanup activities occurred at the Sherwin-Williams/Hilliards Creek Superfund Site, which includes the plant, as well as the Route 561 Dump Site and the United States Avenue Burn Superfund Site, according to the complaint.

Sherwin-Williams developed ...