Company could spend up to $267 million to clean up mercury in Penobscot River
Source: https://www.pressherald.com/, October 1, 2021
By: Megan Gray
A federal judge began hearings Friday that could resolve a decades-long legal battle and begin one of the costliest environmental remediation projects in Maine history.
In 2000, Maine People’s Alliance and the Natural Resources Defense Council sued Mallinckrodt US LLC over mercury contamination in the Penobscot River from the former HoltraChem site in Orrington. The company owned the chemical plant between 1967 and 1982. Read more.