Mount Vernon Mills Inc., a Georgia-based textile manufacturer, reached a consent decree with an environmental group alleging the company polluted the Chattooga River by discharging industrial wastewater containing hard-to-breakdown chemicals into a local water plant.
The decree, also joined by the defendant town of Trion, stipulates that Mount Vernon will permanently eliminate its use of all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in its local facility by the end of the year. Neither the company nor town admit liability arising from the Coosa River Basin Initiative’s claims.
Trion and Mount Vernon also agreed to pay $5,000 in civil penalties to the ...
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