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Settlement will fund cleanup at contaminated KC plant site

Chris Koster announces Missouri's share of $5B deal

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said the state is getting $19 million to clean up an old Kansas City manufacturing site.
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said the state is getting $19 million to clean up an old Kansas City manufacturing site.
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Settlement will fund cleanup at contaminated KC plant site
Chris Koster announces Missouri's share of $5B deal
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said the state is getting $19 million to clean up an old Kansas City manufacturing site.The money, which is part of a $5 billion national settlement, will help clean up contamination at the old Kerr-McGee creosote treatment facility in Kansas City's east bottoms."Because of that contamination, this site has been isolated for 30 years, cut off from Kansas City's economy," Koster said.He said that the former Kerr-McGee, now operating as Anadarko, sold off properties that it knew were environmental liabilities to a buyer, Tronox, that went under."Kerr-McGee artificially off-loaded all of its environmental liabilities into, essentially, a shell company that was destined for failure and then sold their positive assets to Anadarko," Koster said.Kansas City is one of two Missouri sites involved in the settlement. The other is a similar plant that was operating in Springfield. The remaining money from Missouri's nearly $44 million portion of the settlement will go to the Missouri Natural Resources Damages Program.

Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster said the state is getting $19 million to clean up an old Kansas City manufacturing site.

The money, which is part of a $5 billion national settlement, will help clean up contamination at the old Kerr-McGee creosote treatment facility in Kansas City's east bottoms.

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"Because of that contamination, this site has been isolated for 30 years, cut off from Kansas City's economy," Koster said.

He said that the former Kerr-McGee, now operating as Anadarko, sold off properties that it knew were environmental liabilities to a buyer, Tronox, that went under.

"Kerr-McGee artificially off-loaded all of its environmental liabilities into, essentially, a shell company that was destined for failure and then sold their positive assets to Anadarko," Koster said.

Kansas City is one of two Missouri sites involved in the settlement. The other is a similar plant that was operating in Springfield. The remaining money from Missouri's nearly $44 million portion of the settlement will go to the Missouri Natural Resources Damages Program.