 | Corporate fight lets toxics flow into Connecticut groundwater
Connecticut officials are seeking an order against two disputing companies whose inaction and ongoing argument they allege is allowing PCB contamination to jeopardize Bridgeport Harbor and Long Island Sound. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Gina McCarthy said that the state has requested a temporary injunction against The Sergy Company LLC and Magnetek, Inc.
Sergy is the current owner, and Magnetek the successor to a company that formerly manufactured capacitors at the property located at 902 Crescent Ave., Bridgeport.
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 | Copper firm Asarco agrees to pay US$13.5m for cleaning up of toxics
In response to a demand for cleanup by the US Environmental Protection Agency, copper mining, smelting and refining giant Asarco says it will conduct contamination investigations and remove arsenic, lead and copper contaminated soil in the adjacent Arizona towns of Hayden and Winkleman. In addition, the Tucson-based company has agreed to spend up to $13.5 million on cleaning up the yards of residents in these towns located in southcentral Arizona.
The towns of Hayden and Winkelman consist of homes built during the 1940s and 1950s to house the large number of workers needed in the area to operate ... |
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