AVX Corporation

A citizens group involved in raising awareness about the contamination in the Parker Street Neighborhood several years ago is applauding a recent legal settlement between the City of New Bedford and two industrial companies. The city will receive more than $8 million from AVX Corporation and Cornell Dubillier Electronics for pollution at the Parker Street Waste Site and the North Terminal Rail Yar

Senator Mark Montigny is calling on the EPA to commit to a full and complete clean up of toxic PCB's in New Bedford Hharbor. The Senator tells WBSM News, he fears the $366-million settlement the EPA reached with the AVX Corporation might not be enough to fully clean the harbor...

Fairhaven's Board of Selectmen has joined with other elected bodies and officials in opposing the New Bedford Harbor cleanup settlement. The Board approved a letter to the Department of Justice Tuesday, taking issue with the the $366 million dollar agreement between the EPA and AVX Corporation...

As millions of dollars is being directed toward the removal of PCB's from New Bedford Harbor, the E-P-A says it will conduct a feasibility study to determine whether putting contaminated sediment in so-called cad cells along the shoreline is the best way to go...