BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 16, 2021
A decades-long legal battle over cleaning up mercury pollution in the Penobscot River will come closer to a resolution following a series of hearings in October over a proposed settlement that could lead to a $267 million cleanup. Three days of hearings are scheduled for U.S. District Court in Bangor in early October over a settlement agreement that would have the onetime owner of a shuttered chemical plant in Orrington spend between $187 million and $267 million to clean up mercury contamination in the Penobscot River.