[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION: Rocky Flats (CO) judgment

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Former Colo. nuke plant contractors ordered to pay $925M

Associated Press
June 3, 2008

DENVER (AP) - Two companies that were contractors at the now-defunct 
Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant have been ordered to pay $925 million 
to residents who claimed contamination blown from the facility 
endangered people's health and devalued their property.

Dow Chemical Co. on Tuesday denied wrongdoing and said it will appeal. 
The other contractor, Rockwell International Corp., has in part been 
purchased by Boeing Co., which said it had no liability for the site.

A federal judge on Monday ordered Dow to pay $653 million and Rockwell 
$508 million in compensatory damages, but capped the amount to be 
collected at $725 million. Dow and Rockwell also were ordered to pay 
exemplary damages of $111 million and $89 million, respectively.

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For the entire article, see
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hBkJ3aIgzkDuDnAxnqGIvT4VykvQD912V6F00

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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