The complaint states that, following a series of injunction orders, Arnold and 300 West LLC entered into a consent order with the State of Illinois on June 1, 2016, to address the claims in the IEPA suit. Arnold’s entry into the consent order was not an admission of liability. Under the consent order, Arnold and 300 West LLC were released from liability for the claims in exchange for agreeing to be jointly and severally liable for completing remediation projects and paying approximately $100,000 to the IEPA and the attorney general’s office. The consent order required actions such as providing bottled water to certain private well owners, conducting environmental sampling, funding municipal water hookups, paying IEPA oversight costs, and executing a remediation plan. The total costs associated with compliance are estimated in the complaint to exceed $4 million.
