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Environmental & Energy

Feb. 26, 2020

DOJ Superfund lawsuit against Montrose gets renewed scrutiny from new judge

Two issues remain, including a 20-year-old bench trial that remains under submission.

SANTA ANA -- A 1990 federal Superfund lawsuit against Montrose Chemical Corp. is back in a judge's plate as a series of decade-old consent decrees undergo new scrutiny and a 20-year-old bench trial remains under submission.

The storied state and U.S. Department of Justice action concerns large amounts of the pesticide DDT that Montrose for several decades discharged into the Pacific Ocean at the Palos Verdes Shelf near Los Angeles. ...

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