Around New England, thousands of owners of gas stations and auto repair shops are being billed tens of thousands of dollars apiece for a $65 million Superfund cleanup. Their offense? They were the ones “who made the effort to properly dispose of waste oil and antifreeze by sending it to the sprawling Beede Waste Oil Co. in Plaistow, N.H. Now they are being punished for their conscientious ways.” [Boston Globe]
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