[CPEO-BIF] AVX Myrtle Beach (South Carolina) document

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AVX fights to keep its files secret
Judge to rule on access to waste records

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
September 8, 2010


A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether AVX Corp. must 
release more than 1,500 documents that a lawyer says will show the 
manufacturer was operating what amounted to a "landfill and hazardous 
waste treatment center" just blocks from the oceanfront after it 
polluted groundwater at its Myrtle Beach plant with a toxic degreaser 
called trichloroethylene.

AVX - which last year moved its headquarters from Myrtle Beach to 
Greenville - does not want to release the documents, which detail the 
company's efforts to clean up the pollution in the 14 years before it 
reported the problem to state regulators in 1995.

...

Meanwhile, a trial over whether AVX must compensate adjacent property 
owner Horry Land Co. over the pollution is scheduled to begin Feb. 22 in 
Florence, according to court filings last week.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/09/08/1680542/avx-fights-to-keep-its-files-secret.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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