Environmental: January 2009 Archives

Baltimore Judge Alfred Nance has approved the resolution a Constellation Energy Group subsidiary reached two months ago with Anne Arundel County residents who alleged their groundwater was tainted by coal ash.  From 1995 until September 2007, the Baltimore-based energy company deposited millions of tons of fly ash from two of its Anne Arundel County power plants into two Gambrills quarries.  Pollution experts who endorsed the settlement included Jan Richard Schlichtmann, whose drinking water contamination suit against W.R. Grace and Beatrice Co. was the basis for the book and movie “A Civil Action.”

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