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A California Superior Court judge in San Diego has ordered three(3) current or former lead paint-producing companies to pay $1.1 billion into a clean-up fund to help clean-up hazards from lead paint in hundreds of thousands of homes in the state of California.
The judge's decision in the 13-year old civil case, filed by 10 city and county governments in California, requires payments by defendants SHERWIN-WILLIAMS Co., NL INDUSTRIES, Inc., and CONAGRA Grocery products company. defendants DuPont Co. and Atlantic-Richfield Co. (owned by BP PLC) were dismissed from the case. Defendants have vowed to appeal the court's decision.
The judge has ordered the creation of a fund to achieve the goals of using the money to pay to remove lead-paint hazards from homes in Los Angeles County, San Francisco and other places whose local governments joined the legal action. The fund is to be administered by California's existing state Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch program.
[ "Lead-Paint Cleanup Ordered By Judge", The Wall Street Journal, page B1, Tuesday, December 17, 2013]
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