Recent oil refinery owners share contamination cleanup costs

Alaska’s Supreme Court says recent owners of a North Pole oil refinery share costs of cleaning up a contamination that has reached about 7 square miles of groundwater.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports the Friday ruling keeps onsite cleanup costs attached to Flint Hills while former refinery owner Williams Alaska Petroleum is responsible for the plume that spread offsite.
A nearby resident had sued Flint Hills over the contamination.
Flint Hills then filed a claim against former refin