$102 MILLION SUPERFUND AWARD LARGEST SINCE LOVE CANAL, EPA SAYS

In what a government official says is the largest award of its kind since Love Canal, a district court in Arkansas ruled on October 23 that two companies must repay $102 million spent by EPA for cleanup of the Vertac Superfund site in Jacksonville, Arkansas. A succession of companies occupied the site, which was used for the production of herbicides and, at one time the chemical defoliant Agent Orange. When the Vertac Corporation went out of business in 1987, it...