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April 4, 2014

Anadarko to Pay $5 Billion to Settle Toxic Pollution Case 
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The energy firm Anadarko has agreed to pay more than $5 billion in what
the Justice Department hailed as the largest payment ever for cleaning
up environmental contamination. The case involves thousands of sites
across the country polluted by nuclear fuel and other toxic material and
more than 8,000 people who say they were sickened by chemical exposure.
Anadarko had tried to avoid liability for pollution caused by Kerr-Mc
Gee, an energy company it acquired in 2006. The payments include $1
billion to the Navajo Nation for damages from Kerr-Mc Gee's uranium
mining operations.

 

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