Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated says that Morton International, Inc.’s lawsuit against former customers of a former mercury refining operation located on the banks of Berry’s Creek in Wood Ridge, N.J., is ongoing.
Morton is a subsidiary of Rohm and Haas…
Rohm and Haas Company reports that remediation at the Woodland sites — two waste disposal locations in the New Jersey Pinelands – is now completed.
Rohm and Haas, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) and Hercules, Inc. have been engaged in…
Rohm and Haas Company has identified reasonably possible loss contingencies related to environmental matters of approximately US$138 million at December 31, 2008 and US$124 million at December 31, 2007.
The Company is a party in various government enforcement and private actions…
Rohm and Haas Company is continuing groundwater remediation and monitoring programs after major remediation for certain sites, such as Kramer, Whitmoyer, Woodlands, Charlie Burch and Goose Farm has been completed.
Reserves for these costs have been established.
In addition, the Company has…
Rohm and Haas Company is facing lawsuits, filed in April 2006 and thereafter, claiming that its Ringwood, Illinois plant contaminated groundwater and air that allegedly reached properties a mile south of the plant site. Also sued was the owner of…
Rohm and Haas Company is in continued discussions with parties under an agreement tolling the deadlines for filing cost-recovery litigation related to contamination at Berry’s Creek, which runs past the Company’s Wood-Ridge, N.J. site
The site is the location of a…
Rohm and Haas Company continues to be a potentially responsible party at a Camden, New Jersey former drum recycling site.
U.S. EPA Region 2 issued a Record of Decision in 2005. The project is divided into two phases: Phase I will…
Rohm and Haas Company is currently undertaking remediation of the former Morton plant at Paterson, New Jersey under New Jersey’s Industrial Site Recovery Act.
The Company closed the site in December 2001. It removed contaminated soil from the site and constructed…
The U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in August 2008, gave final approval to Modine Manufacturing Company’s settlement of disputes in an alleged class action matter on solvents that were allegedly released to groundwater and air. The Company was…
Rohm and Haas Company is still in continued discussions with about one dozen non-settling parties to resolve their share of the liability for a portion of the remediation costs at the Wood- Ridge, New Jersey site, and Berry’s Creek, which…