Settlement Will Fund Cleanup at Contaminated KC Plant Site
Settlement in environmental clean up shell game.
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said the state is getting $19 million to clean up an old Kansas City manufacturing site.
The money, which is part of a $5 billion national settlement, will help clean up contamination at the old Kerr-McGee creosote treatment facility in Kansas City’s east bottoms.“Because of that contamination, this site has been isolated for 30 years, cut off from Kansas City’s economy,” Koster said.
He said that the former Kerr-McGee, now operating as Anadarko, sold off properties that it knew were environmental liabilities to a buyer, Tronox, that went under.
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