Northrop, Chemtronics Settle With Feds Over Superfund Cleanup

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Chemtronics Inc., and Celanese Corp. settled with the federal government Friday to recoup $3.9 million in remediation costs at a Superfund site in North Carolina that was used to produce national defense articles.

The companies say they’ve spent $31 million cleaning up the site according to three federal agreements. Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act the government “is obligated to pay for its equitable share of all past and future response costs,” according to the complaint filed concurrently with a proposed consent decree in the US District Court for the Western District ...