Remediation plans for Union Carbide s Filmont landfill in South Charleston are unclear as a federal judge decides how to apportion damages for unlawful discharges from the landfill. The Courtland Company alleges Carbide is liable for a $1.4 billion penalty for decades of unpermitted discharges, while the United States Environmental Protection Agency says the site under state Department of Environmental Protection oversight is in the early stages of Superfund consideration.
Charlton Heights, Fayette County resident Michael Graves, owner of West Virginia Environmental Services, was sentenced to one year of home confinement plus a fine, and his company was fined after pleading guilty in February 2023 to violating a water pollution control permit requiring them to properly maintain a leachate collection system following a grand jury indictment.
A federal judge has ruled that Union Carbide Corp. violated federal water pollution and waste disposal laws through its industrial operations in South Charleston.