Mallinckrodt Case Documents
These are the current documents associated with Maine People’s Alliance and NRDC v. HoltraChem Manufacturing Co., LLC, and Mallinckrodt US LLC.
- Complaint (April 5, 2000)
- Memorandum of Decision and Order (July 29, 2002)
- Implementing Order for Penobscot River Study Pursuant to Memorandum of Decision and Order (July 29, 2002)
- Order Amending Implementing Order for Penobscot River Study Pursuant to Memorandum of Decision and Order (July 29, 2002)
- Second Order Amending Implementing Order for Penobscot River Study Pursuant to Memorandum of Decision and Order (July 29, 2002)
- Opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
- Penobscot River Mercury Study: Phase I of the Study, 2006-2007
- Order Approving Phase I Report
- Penobscot River Mercury Study: Update to the Phase I Report
- Notice of Electronic Filing of Phase II Report
- Executive Summary: Penobscot River Mercury Study Phase II Report (April 2013)
- Chapter 1. A Synthesis of Mercury Studies on the Penobscot River Estuary
- Chapter 2. Setting Mercury Remediation Targets for Surface Sediments in the Penobscot Estuary
- Chapter 3. Total Mercury Loading to the Penobscot River from the HoltraChem Plant Site, Orrington, Maine and from Other Point Sources
- Chapter 4. Field Data and Experiments on In Situ Particle Formation in the Penobscot River
- Chapter 5. Total Mercury Sedimentary Inventories and Sedimentary Fluxes in the Lower Penobscot River and Estuary, Maine
- Chapter 6. Estimates of Recovery from Mercury Contamination in the Penobscot River Estuarine System by an Assessment of Sedimentation Rates
- Chapter 7. Field Investigations of Hydrodynamics and Particle Transport in Penobscot River and Bay
- Chapter 8. Total and Methylmercury Concentrations in Mobile and Surface Sediments in the Upper Penobscot Estuary
- Chapter 9. Upstream Limit of Mercury Contamination in Surface Sediments
- Chapter 10. Investigation of Total and Methylmercury Export from Mendall Marsh Via South Branch of Marsh River, a Tributary to the Penobscot River
- Chapter 11. Mercury Methylation Studies: Distribution and Biogeochemical Controls on Net Methylmercury Production in Penobscot River Marshes and Sediments, 2009–2012
- Chapter 12. Factors Controlling Methylmercury Production in Intertidal, Wetland, and Bay Sediments in the Penobscot Estuary
- Chapter 13. Plan for Long-Term Monitoring of Mercury in Sediments and Biota in Penobscot River and Bay
- Chapter 14. Temporal and Geographic Trends in Mercury in Biota in the Penobscot Estuary
- Chapter 15. Temporal trends of total and methyl mercury in surface sediments, 2006-2010
- Chapter 16. Analysis of Aquatic and Wetland Food Webs in the Penobscot Estuary
- Chapter 17. Background Concentrations of Mercury in Central Maine Estuaries
- Chapter 18. Simulations of the Rate of Decline of Mercury Concentrations in the Penobscot Estuary
- Chapter 19. In-Situ Amendment Plot Studies
- Chapter 20. Investigation of Two Materials for Potential Application in Reducing Filter-passing Mercury in the Penobscot River
- Chapter 21. Recommendations to the Court
- Chapter 22. Risk Overview
- Chapter 23. The Scientific Basis for Active Remediation of the Upper Penobscot Estuary
- Phase II Report Errata
- Penobscot River Mercury Study: Results of 2012 Monitoring
- Penobscot River Mercury Study: Results of 2012 Monitoring – Figures 1-81
- Penobscot River Mercury Study: Results of 2012 Monitoring – Tables 1–17
- Penobscot River Mercury Study: Results of 2012 Monitoring – Appendices 1–11
- Penobscot River Mercury Study: Monitoring Mercury in American Black Ducks, 2013–14
- Plaintiffs’ Pre-Trial Brief
- Mallinckrodt US LLC’s Pre-Trial Brief
- Plaintiffs’ Post-Trial Brief
- Appendix A – Witness Summaries Submitted by the Plaintiff
- Mallinckrodt US LLC’s Post-Trial Brief
- Appendix A – Witness Summaries Submitted by the Defendants
- Plaintiff’s Post-Trial Reply Brief
- Order on Remediation Plan
- Order on Evaluation of Potential Active Remedies
- Selection of Phase III Engineering Firm
- Penobscot River System Phase III Engineering Study Factsheet
- Phase III Engineering Study Report (September 2018)
- Proposed Consent Decree with appendices (March 19, 2021)
- Motion to Approve Consent Decree (March 19, 2021)
- Public Notice of Court Fairness Hearing and Opportunity to Comment
- Fact Sheet: Proposed Penobscot River Mercury Cleanup