Successor To Owner Of Zinc Smelter Ordered To Contribute $14.2M Toward Cleanup

(April 6, 2021, 3:07 PM EDT) -- TULSA, Okla. — A federal judge in Oklahoma on March 31 ordered a successor to the owner of a zinc smelting facility to contribute $14.2 million toward the $31.7 million the current owner of the site has paid in remediation costs, finding that the defendant company is liable as a former owner and operator of the smelter under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act....