BEAUMONT, Texas (Legal Newsline) – The United States is suing DuPont and Chemours Co. for cleanup costs at the DuPont Beaumont Works Industrial Park Complex.
The lawsuit filed Dec. 29 in Texas federal court says it was done so at the behest of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas General Land Office and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
DuPont and its spin-off company Chemours are responsible for the costs of cleaning up hazardous substances released into the environment at the complex into a marsh, the suit says.
Since DuPont began operating the site in 1954 to produce plastics and other products, it has released arsenic, chromium, lead, zinc, copper, mercury and nickel into the environment, the suit says.
A 2007 agreement produced a final damage assessment in 2016. The suit says DuPont and Chemours are responsible for paying to clean up the pollution detailed in the report.