Attorneys for the company behind West Virginia
Mark Freelander, an attorney for
Freedom, released key details. He said the arrangement reached after an
hours-long court hearing would allow Freedom Industries to continue paying its
employees and top vendors and also provide funds to cover for environmental
cleanup from a Jan. 9 chemical spill in the Elk River .
The spill contaminated water supplies
for some 300,000 people in West
Virginia
The agreement with a lender comes after
Freedom Industries President Gary Southern said earlier Tuesday that the
company had already paid about $800,000 last week to remediate environmental
damage from the spill.
