Rockwell, Dow to Pay $375M in Rocky Flats Settlement

Rockwell Automation and Dow Chemical Co. have agreed to pay $375 million to resolve the long-standing claims of a class of landowners near Rocky Flats, a former Energy Department nuclear weapons plant near Denver (Cook v. Rockwell Int’l Corp., D. Colo, 90-CV-00181, 5/19/16).

Marking a key moment in a highly complex case, Judge John L. Lane of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado issued an order May 19 certifying the settlement class of owners of real property near the plant, where the DOE manufactured nuclear and nonnuclear components for the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal ...