Source: https://www.justice.gov/, December 17, 2021

Alcoa Corporation and Howmet Aerospace, successors to Alcoa Incorporated, and the City of East St. Louis, Illinois, will clean up hazardous waste disposal sites surrounding Alcoa’s former aluminum manufacturing plant in East St. Louis to resolve federal liability. The settlement will require the companies to clean up radium, arsenic, chromium, lead and other hazardous substances detected in soils at an estimated cost of $4.1 million and reimburse all future costs incurred by the United States in overseeing the cleanup. The complaint filed simultaneously with the proposed consent decree alleges that defendants are liable for the cleanup of hazardous wastes generated by and disposed of on and around the site of the Aluminum Company of America’s aluminum manufacturing and production plant that operated from 1903 until 1957. Read more.