From California’s North Coast: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with Humboldt Creamery that requires the company to pay $5,000 for allegedly over-reporting the amount of nitric acid it released into the environment in 1999 and 2000. Ironically, the actual amount of nitric acid the creamery released was … zero pounds. That’s right, zip. Zilch. Nada. But it’s still being fined, simply because it reported incorrectly.” The company says the agency originally sought to impose a fine of $30,000 and declined to negotiate the issue unless the creamery hired its own lawyer. “It’s kind of a rare thing,” said Leo Kay of the EPA’s San Francisco press office. “Most fines involve under-reporting, not over-reporting.” (Jennifer Morey, Eureka (Calif.) Times-Standard, Jul. 16).
“Humboldt Creamery fined for ‘over-reporting’ chemical release”
From California’s North Coast: “The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with Humboldt Creamery that requires the company to pay $5,000 for allegedly over-reporting the amount of nitric acid it released into the environment in 1999 and 2000. Ironically, the actual amount of nitric acid the creamery released was … zero pounds. That’s […]
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