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Halliburton is among defendants in nuclear waste lawsuit under CERCLA

Halliburton is among defendants in nuclear waste lawsuit under CERCLA Examiner.com Frank Taylor April 7

Halliburton Energy Services is one of the corporations from which the United States seeks to recover the response costs that it incurred due to releases and threatened releases of hazardous substances into the environment from facilities where radioactive materials were manufactured, repaired, reworked, stored, and processed for disposal. GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences Corp. and Pengo Industries, Inc., are among the other defendants in United States of America v. Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., (case number 4:07-cv-03795 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas) The federal government, which filed the lawsuit in 2007, alleges that the defendants are liable under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, commonly known as CERCLA, for more than $26.7 million in unreimbursed response costs for the cleanup of sites in Houston, Webster, and Odessa. The State of Texas intervened in the case to recover the response costs that it had contributed to the federal government.

Houston U.S. District Court Examiner: Halliburton is among defendants in nuclear waste lawsuit under CERCLA

April 8, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive, uranium