A bankruptcy judge in West Virginia told the company behind a disastrous chemical spill on the Elk River that it must prioritize its dwindling resources to clean up the site of the contamination while holding down its legal expenses, Dow Jones Daily Bankruptcy Review reported today. Freedom Industries Inc. was in court on Tuesday to answer "serious questions" raised by Bankruptcy Judge Ronald Pearson after the company suggested that it would walk away from the cleanup of the spill site. "We're going to have to prioritize from this point forward how we use the limited resources that are available," Judge Pearson said at the hearing on Tuesday. "I'd like to make sure that everyone in the case understands that what we're going to go do first is we're going to get things cleaned up and we're going to cover those expenses."
