FAIRMONT, W.Va. (AP) — Three companies will pay nearly $30 million to continue cleaning up a riverside Superfund site near Fairmont and to reimburse the state and federal governments for previous work, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday.
The settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg requires Exxon Mobil Corp., Vertellus Specialties Inc., and CBS Corp., to spend $17.8 million cleaning up the mess that their predecessor companies created decades ago while processing coal tar and other hazardous wastes.
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