The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has ordered the recalculation of a paper manufacturer’s liability for a “Superfund” pollution site at the Lower Fox River in Wisconsin.
Chief Judge Diane P. Wood, writing for the panel, noted that NCR Corporation invented carbonless copy paper in the 1950s, but that the cost of the product’s convenience was “large-scale environmental contamination” from the 250,000 pounds of carcinogenic polychlorinated byphenyls (PCBs) that coated the paper and were dumped in the river by 1979.
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