Federal officials reached a settlement with an agricultural and industrial chemical manufacturer to clean hazardous waste at a shuttered phosphate products plant in Louisiana, they announced July 14.
The company, PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer LP, will cover the $84-million cost of closing the facility in Geismar, La., and pay a $1.5-million civil penalty resolving allegations that it failed to properly manage hazardous wastes that were disposed of in surface impoundments. The U.S. Dept. of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Louisiana Dept. of Environmental Quality were involved in the settlement agreement.