[CPEO-BIF] [California] Fines UC, Zeneca for Richmond Toxics Disposal

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State Fines UC, Zeneca for Richmond Toxics Disposal

By Richard Brenneman
Berkeley Daily Planet (CA)
June 11, 2009

The state has fined UC Berkeley and an international agropharmaceutical 
corporation a total of $510,000 for illegally disposing of toxic waste 
in Richmond, prompting outrage from Sherry Padgett, the woman who has 
spearheaded the battle to clean up the sites, because the total 
penalties for illegal disposal of more than 3,000 truckloads of soils 
contaminated with deadly organic chemicals and poisonous metals work out 
to less than $170 a load.

According to the settlement agreement signed by officials of the 
university, Zeneca Inc. and the state Department of Toxic Substances 
Control (DTSC), Zeneca will pay a total of $225,000 while the university 
will pay $285,000.

The funds will be evenly divided between the DTSC and Richmond BUILD, a 
city-sponsored program which trains young workers to install solar 
energy systems.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-06-11/article/33130?headline=State-Fines-UC-Zeneca-for-Richmond-Toxics-Disposal

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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