COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) – Goodyear is suing several companies, including Conagra Foods, for alleged contamination at a landfill in Jackson County, Ohio.
The company filed its lawsuit Dec. 11 in Columbus federal court against Conagra, General Mills, Inland Products, Lancaster Glass, Masco Cabinetry, National Oilwell Varco, Osco Industries and Reynolds American.
Goodyear has spent $12.7 million in remediating the pollution and is seeking compensation from the defendants under the federal Superfund law. Pollution began in the 1970s, the lawsuit says.
“Wastes disposed of the JCL Site included municipal solid waste, wastes from commercial and industrial operations, and/or drummed waste that contained at least the following hazardous substances: acetone, polyester resin mixture, cyclohexanone, dichloromethane, isobutyl alcohol, methyl ethyl ketone, methyl isobutyl ketone, toluene, xylene, and waste styrene mixture,” the lawsuit says.
Since then, ammonia, iron, nickel and lead, as well as other contaminants, have been found there, the suit says.
Private mediation with defendants has failed, it adds.