11 Nov 2010
ERJ staff report (DS)
Phoenix, Arizona -- The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality and Arizona Attorney General's Office have reached settlements with 23 companies, including Goodyear Tyre & Rubber, to pay a total of $542,000 (euro 394 000) in relation to hazardous waste dumping claims from 1945 through the early 1970s.
The companies and settlements are General Dynamics Corp. $150,750, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co./Lockheed Martin Corp. $90,750 (euro 66 000), Tucson Dodge Inc. $66,000, Textron Inc./ABB, Inc./Combustion Engineering, Inc. and R.E. Darling Co. Inc. $30,000 each, Holmes Tuttle Ford, Inc. and Pima County Community College $24,000 each, and Texas Instruments Inc. $16,500.
The contaminants of concern are trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PCE), and methylene chloride.
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Press release from Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
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