Shelby Township says environmental expert blocked from testing on toxic Visteon site

8/10/2012

A bitter battle over a contaminated industrial site first exposed by the 7 Action News Investigators is heating up again.

The hot issue when we broke the story three weeks ago was Ford’s effort to seal records in the case. Three days after our story aired, the judge who was leaning toward giving Ford a protective order reversed himself.

On Thursday, lawyers were before Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Richard Carretti again. This time it was an emergency hearing requested by a lawyer for Shelby Township. The township’s environmental expert was denied access to the contaminated site earlier this week, even though all the parties had earlier agreed to let him in.

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