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The New-Indy Containerboard paper mill in Catawba, South Carolina.
A South Carolina paper mill is now facing a third federal lawsuit from neighbors. The suit filed Tuesday says the plant s emissions are causing pollution and making them sick.
Like the two previous suits, this one also was filed at federal court in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and seeks class-action status and at least $5 million in damages from the company, New-Indy Containerboard. It also wants the plant shut down until the problem is fixed.
The suit was filed by Terri Kennedy of Indian Land, South Carolina. She lives seven miles northeast of the plant, which is along the Catawba River in York County. Kennedy says several times a week, the smell of rotten eggs from hydrogen sulfide and other pollutants enters her home.
The New Indy Containerboard paper mill in Catawba, South Carolina.
Residents near a paper mill in York County, South Carolina, have filed a second class-action lawsuit claiming that noxious odors from the plant are surrounding their homes and making them sick.
Shirley Landsdown and Ethel Piercey of York County sued New-Indy Containerboard last week at federal court in Rock Hill. The suit seeks more than $5 million in damages. The women say the paper and cardboard maker failed to control emissions, including by halting or reducing the use of equipment to treat hydrogen sulfide and other byproducts that have a rotten-egg smell.
May 20 A south Charlotte homeowner has sued a South Carolina pulp and paper mill whose fumes have sickened residents in the Carolinas for many months. Kenny White, who lives off Rea Road in the Ballantyne area, filed the private-nuisance, class-action lawsuit against New-Indy Containerboard of Catawba, S.C, in federal court in Rock Hill on Tuesday. New-Indy is a joint venture between New .