[CPEO-MEF] FORMER SITES: Guam "AG sues Navy over Ordot dump closure"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AG sues Navy over Ordot dump closure

by Jerick Sablan 
Pacific Daily News (GU)
March 7, 2017 

It took about three years, but the island's attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the Navy over the closure of Ordot dump and future costs.

Gov. Eddie Calvo, during his February 2014 State of the Island Address, said suing the federal government because of the dump was one of his 10 goals for that year.

Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson recently authorized the suit on behalf of the Territory of Guam against the U.S. Department of the Navy, seeking to declare the Navy liable for environmental response costs incurred by the government of Guam in closing the dump, and for future environmental-related costs, a release from the AG's office states.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2017/03/06/ag-sues-us-navy-over-ordot-dump-closure/98825796/

See also 
http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/guam-lawsuit-says-navy-should-pay-its-share-of-dump-cleanup-1.457398#.WMY0Szu7GOo

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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