By Sanford J. Schmidt, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill. Aug. 2--EAST ST. LOUIS -- Apex Oil Co. has announced it will appeal a decision by U.S. District Judge David Herndon that requires the company to being cleanup of a gasoline plume beneath the north end of Hartford.

Apex Oil Co. is to clean up extensive contamination at its former refinery in Hartford, Ill., an effort that could cost $150 million, officials said Tuesday. Apex was ordered to clean up the soil and groundwater contamination Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge David Herndon Monday, the U.S.

By Sanford J. Schmidt, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill. Feb. 23--EAST ST. LOUIS -- A lawsuit aimed at including Apex Oil Co. in the ongoing effort to clean up the vast plume of gasoline under Hartford is working its way through federal court.

By Robert Patrick, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jan. 13--In May, Mabel Edwards, 81, was told that she had to evacuate her Hartford house because of flammable or possibly explosive levels of petroleum vapors in her soil. Her house was cleared two months later.