Health and Safety News
Health and Safety news relating to the parts washer industry.

Large Retailer Fined For Hazardous Discharges
Release Date: August 9, 2005

A judge in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin has ordered home improvement supply company Menard Inc. to pay $2 Million in fines and surcharges for illegally discharging pollutants into state waters.
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U.S. EPA orders Nevada-based Oakley, Inc. to comply with waste water rules
Release date: 10/5/2005

Firm must limit discharges, begin self-monitoring and reporting or face fines

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Nevada-based eyeglass company Oakley, Inc., to limit its wastewater discharge and establish a self-monitoring plan to correct violations of the Clean Water Act.
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International Paper Is Fined
Release Date: July 4, 1991

The International Paper Company was fined $2.2 million today after pleading guilty in Federal District Court to criminal charges of illegally storing hazardous waste solvents and falsifying records at its paper mill in Jay, Me.
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Florida Manufacturing Company Fined $1.5 Million For Illegal Toxic Waste Disposal That Led To Deaths Of Two Boys
Release Date: January 3, 2005

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Tampa, Florida manufacturing company today was fined a statutory maximum $1.5 million for the illegal
disposal of toxic wastes that led to the deaths of two nine-year-old boys.
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Ferndale Company Fined $56,000 For Hazardous Waste Violations
Release Date: November 17, 2005

The Department of Ecology (Ecology) has fined a trailer-manufacturing business near Ferndale $56,000 for allowing solvent to drain into the ground and for other repeated hazardous waste violations at its facility near Ferndale.
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