Scott Simonton, a professor of industrial and systems engineering at Marshall University, said drums of industrial waste buried in the Filmont landfill present an 'alarming' risk to the environment.
Testimony in a federal trial reveals local officials knew about the presence of toxic substances in a South Charleston landfill nearly a decade before the public.
CHARLESTON A federal just partially denied Union Carbide s motion for a protective order in a 2019 case alleging the company s secret landfill contaminated ground and surface water.
Union Carbide filed the motion for a protective order last month regarding the deposition of Jerome Cibrik, a remediation leader at Union Carbide, arguing that the topics proposed by the plaintiff’s notice pertain to the Clean Water Act claim that the plaintiff had tried to bring in its supplemental complaint. In its response brief, the plaintiff argued that deposition topics related to the classification of the Filmont Site and the UCC Railyard as open dumps were implicated by its Count V claim for judicial abatement of a public nuisance per se, the judge s order states.