Wal-Mart Fined for Violating Clean Water Act
Puerto Rico: Wal-Mart to Pay Fine [Associated Press via Forbes]
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay a fine and fund land preservation in Puerto Rico to settle a U.S. Clean Water Act violation stemming from excessive storm water runoff at a construction site, a federal official said Thursday.
The Bentonville, Ark.-based company was fined $24,000 for failing to prevent sediment from washing into waterways at a Wal-Mart Supercenter in Caguas, south of the capital of San Juan, said Alan J. Steinberg, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regional administrator.
The United States’ largest retailer will also provide $98,000 to preserve land in the San Juan Bay watershed.
A Wal-Mart representative was not immediately available for comment Thursday.
Posted by Enviro. Team on Friday, April 27, 2007
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Again Wal-Mart open mouth insert foot,did they not have this big campaign about begin a more green business
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