Your Monday Marketplace Magic Map! Kerr-McGee Toxic Dump Sites From Sea To Shining Sea!

[hatrack]

On Thursday, the Justice Department announced the biggest environmental settlement in history with Anadarko Petroleum, reaching a $5.15 billion deal to clean up dozens of sites across the United States and compensate more than 7,000 people living with the effects of the contamination.

The accord arose out of a lawsuit in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court concerning Tronox, a paint materials manufacturer and unit of the company Kerr-McGee, an Anadarko subsidiary. Anadarko bought Kerr-McGee after it had spun off Tronox, but plaintiffs and Justice Dept. officials charged this was merely an attempt to avoid taking financial responsibility for the range of U.S. chemical, energy and manufacturing businesses Kerr-McGee operated over the course of 85 years.

So how many places were touched by Kerr-McGee's toxic legacy of uranium mining, wood treatment, rocket-fuel processing and other activities? Take a look at this map:



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Now Anadarko's shareholders have financial certainty about what sort of a hit the company will take, and billions of dollars will go into restoring these polluted areas in big cities, small towns and remote rural regions. Some areas are beyond repair, however: for example, Kerr-McGee operated a wood-treatment facility in Manville, N.J., that used coal tar creosote from 1910 until the mid-1950s; now the state of New Jersey will get $4.5 million to compensate it for the fact that the area’s groundwater resources cannot be brought up to meet federal standards.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/05/where-did-kerr-mcgee-pollute-almost-every-state-in-the-lower-48/

[Fred Sanders]

1. I notice how the media have slammed the corporate cone of silence over this....how precious.

[LiberalEsto]

2. I wish I could get a close-up look at northern NJ

It looks like I grew up near the creosote/fuel terminal zone.

[enough]

3. $4.5 million to "compensate" New Jersey for permanently polluted groundwater.

Doesn't sound like much.

Very interesting map. Thanks for posting this.

[Downwinder]

4. Should have done like Johns-Manville.

Kept the places open with one employee. No need to clean up an operating site.

[pscot]

5. They missed 5 states

I wonder how that happened.

[Downwinder]

6. Make up for it in the Gulf,

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