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Environmental & Energy,
Civil Litigation

Apr. 6, 2022

School district sues Dow, Shell over TCP in water

The plaintiff said cleaning up the drinking water for its students, staff and faculty requires the installation of a special water treatment plant, which costs millions of dollars to install and operate.

A school district in Merced County has filed a lawsuit against Dow Chemical Company and Shell Oil Company, alleging they contaminated drinking water when they sold pesticides they knew contained the carcinogen 1,2,3 trichloropropane, otherwise known as TCP.

The Ballico-Cressey School District further claimed in its lawsuit filed March 29 that Dow and Shell failed to warn farmers about the dangers of the TCP-containing fumigants, leading t...

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