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(Des Moines, IA) -- The Iowa Supreme Court rules that an executive can be personally named in a lawsuit against his company.
The state of Iowa sued Global Fiberglass Solutions, arguing that the company failed to clean up and recycle thousands of wind turbine blades after having been contracted to do so by two major wind turbine companies. The state's lawsuit says, as as result, roughly 13 hundred blades sat in stockpiles for years at sites in Ellsworth, Newton, and Atlantic.
The Iowa Supreme Court that GFS executive Donald Lilly will be personally named in the case. Lilly and GFS are accused of violating Iowa's solid waste laws and creating an environmental hazard. The wind turbine companies who hired GFS completed the removal of the wind turbines in 2024. The Iowa Supreme Court's full decision is available on the Iowa Attorney General's Office website.