A federal judge has found PPG Industries Inc. liable for contaminated discharges into the Allegheny River from an Armstrong County, Pa., site where it dumped slurry waste from a nearby glass factory for 21 years (PennEnv’t v. PPG Industries, Inc., W.D. Pa., 2:12-cv-00342, partial summary judgment granted 8/31/15.
Magistrate Judge Robert C. Mitchell of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, in an Aug. 31 decision, granted partial summary judgment to plaintiffs PennEnvironment and the Sierra Club in finding liability for violations of the Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act and ...
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