Source: http://www.infozine.com, April 23, 2015

Missouri has received another $7,124,000 million as part of the Anadarko Petroleum Corporation bankruptcy settlement.

This $7,124,000 million is in addition to the $43.9 million announced in February for the clean-up of contaminated sites in Kansas City and Springfield and for the state’s Natural Resource Damages program.
The company’s two former Missouri sites, at 2300 Oakland in Kansas City and 2800 West High in Springfield, had been used by Kerr-McGee for creosote wood treatment, leading to soil and groundwater contamination. Each site has already received $19,108,116 for environmental clean-up. In Wednesday’s announcement, each site will receive an additional $3,097,704 for remediation work to clean up the contaminated sites.
The bankruptcy settlement also is providing an additional payment of $929,311 for the state’s National Resource Damages (NRD) program, which previously received $5,732,434 under the settlement. The NRD program, administered by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, remediates contaminated sites for public use. The NRD program money can be used on these or other sites in the state.
The clean-up of the Missouri sites is part of a settlement involving Tronox, a spin-off of energy company Kerr-McGee. Attorneys with the United States Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency alleged that Kerr-McGee improperly saddled Tronox with substantial environmental liabilities in order to facilitate the sale of Kerr-McGee to Anadarko, a Texas-based petroleum company. Tronox eventually filed for bankruptcy, citing the crippling cost of those environmental liabilities.
In 2009, the state of Missouri asserted a claim in the bankruptcy proceedings for the former Kerr-McGee sites in Springfield and Kansas City.
The $5.15 billion settlement reached in April 2104 was the largest environmental clean-up recovery in U.S. history. In all, $4.4 billion from the settlement is allocated for environmental clean-up of contaminated sites throughout the country.