Occidental in $190 Mln Settlement to Clean Up New Jersey River

Sept 15 - Occidental Chemical Corp has agreed to pay New Jersey $190 million as part of a settlement to clean up the polluted Passaic River, state officials announced on Monday.

"Our objective throughout the Passaic River litigation has been to hold accountable those legally responsible for contaminating the river, and we have done so," acting Attorney General John Hoffman said in a statement.

Occidental Chemical, a unit of Occidental Petroleum Corp, bought a Newark factory once owned by Diamond Shamrock Chemicals Co, which dumped cancer-causing dioxin into the river during the manufacturing of the Vietnam War-era defoliant Agent Orange.

（Reuters  Edited by Topco)