January 24, 2008 - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing three chemical companies and a defunct dry-cleaning supply business over the contamination of several drinking water wells.
The suit, filed in federal court in Brooklyn, is an attempt to recover at least some of the $30 million the city and state expect to spend cleaning up an underground plume of the dry cleaning chemical perchloroethylene, or PCE, believed to have leaked from a former distribution facility in the Jamaica section of Queens.
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