Florida Contamination Spurs Class-Action Against Raytheon

April 14, 2008 - A Pinellas County attorney filed a class-action lawsuit today against the Raytheon Corp. on behalf of residents who may be affected by contaminated groundwater in the Azalea area of St. Petersburg.

Saunders said he wants Raytheon to pay for medical screening of people in the neighborhood and that the stigma of contamination already has diminished property values.

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Arizona town concerned about Superfund stigma

August 20, 2007 - Dewey-Humboldt is a small town with a big problem.

On a hill overlooking Western storefronts and modest homes about 15 miles east of Prescott is a 4 million-ton pile of mine tailings, a toxic relic of the town's mining past.

Just a few hundred yards away, across Arizona 69, is a rusting smokestack and an oily, black mountain of slag, the waste product of a long-defunct smelter.

Together, the area surrounding the decades-old piles is the first Arizona site in nearly a decade that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants placed on the Superfund list, the federal cleanup program reserved for the country's worst environmental hazards.

Dewey-Humboldt's 4,000 residents are divided on whether a Superfund listing would be a blessing or a bane.

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