Johnson Controls Wins Appeals Court Challenge to Indiana Cleanup

摘要

Johnson Controls doesn’t need to do more in its process of cleaning up trichloroethylene contamination in Goshen, Ind., the Seventh Circuit affirmed.Residents argued the company’s cleanup isn’t adequate under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. However, they failed to allege an imminent or substantial harm to compelmore action, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.Johnson Controls operated a manufacturing plant that used chlorinated volatile organic compounds as degreasing agent, and some of it reached groundwater. The substances breakdown slowly, and temporarily become trichloroethylene, or TCE, which is a carcinogen.