Exxon, US Steel, Others To Pay For Ohio Cleanup

Law360, New York (May 06, 2010, 2:14 PM ET) -- U.S. Steel Corp., Exxon Mobil Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and more than three dozen other companies accused of liability in connection with the remediation of an Ohio Superfund site have agreed to provide the U.S. government with payment for response costs.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lodged a proposed consent decree Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio that would require 41 defendants that allegedly contributed to the site's contamination to pay $475,000 “for full and complete satisfaction of their obligation...
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