Updated on Monday, Oct. 21 at 4:15 p.m.
Rockdale County Commissioner Sherri Washington announced at a press conference on Monday that the county board plans to file a federal lawsuit against the chemical manufacturing company BioLab and its parent company, Kik Consumer Products.
Washington, who plans to file the lawsuit this week on behalf of the board, says that the filing comes in the aftermath of a fire from a BioLab facility in Conyers, Georgia, on Sept. 29.
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