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.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency says it s waiting on sign-off from the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection on a plan to remediate contaminated soil at Minden s Superfund site.
Five years after the site’s existence became publicly known as part of a federal lawsuit, it remains unclear who dropped the ball in failing to list the site as required by federal law.
Union Carbide is working with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) on a voluntary remediation of the Filmont landfill. The site is the subject of an ongoing federal lawsuit over water pollution and was listed by EPA as a Superfund site.
The West Virginia Rivers Coalition has threatened to sue Chemours over what the group says are lingering violations of the Clean Water Act tied to PFAS at the company s Washington Works plant near Parkersburg. Chemours says the United States Environmental Protection Agency has yet to approve a PFAS remediation plan the agency required the company to submit in a consent order in April 2023.