Three companies including Marathon Petroleum Co. were dismissed from a lawsuit over forever chemical contamination in Weirton, W.V., after a federal judge ruled the city didn’t prove how their operations in the region directly polluted its groundwater.
The Weirton Area Water Board’s allegations against Marathon, Wallover Oil Co., and Transmontaigne Operating GP were too vague to establish each released per- and polyfuoroalykl substances (PFAS) in groundwater resources, according to three dismissal orders issued by the US District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
Judge Preston Bailey dismissed the case against Marathon for failure to state a claim, while ...
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