[CPEO-BIF] "Westport residents suing to ensure casino site is properly cleaned, " Baltimore, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Westport residents suing to ensure casino site is properly cleaned  
Environmental group approached citizens, offered to file complaint  
against city, state, casino owner

By Chris Korman and Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun
February 20, 2013

Six Baltimore residents financed by an environmental group sued the  
owner of Baltimore's yet-to-be-built casino, the city and the state,  
alleging that they colluded to skirt rules governing the study and  
cleanup of "highly contaminated properties" near their neighborhood.



The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court, seeks an  
injunction to delay the issuing of building permits for the Horseshoe  
Casino until further study of the land and public discussion of a  
proposal for making it safe are completed.



Lawyers for the defendants had not reviewed the filing as of  
Wednesday evening and declined to comment. Chad Barnhill, the general  
manager for Horseshoe, also had not seen the lawsuit.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-baltimore-casino-cleanup- 
suit-20130220,0,5312000.story


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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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