The United States on Monday filed a civil suit against a waste disposal company near the U.S. Naval Air Facility in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, seeking immediate suspension of the firm's incinerator operations, according to the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo.
The suit was filed at the Yokohama District Court.
The United States has been claiming that high levels of dioxin released from the incinerators of Ayase-based Envirotech Co. are threatening the health of more than 8,000 Americans and Japanese living and working on the base.