The Nation - News from April 7, 1985
A subsidiary of the nation’s largest waste-disposal firm has agreed to pay a $2.5-million fine to settle civil complaints involving an Ohio landfill, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The penalty against Chemical Waste Management Inc., an arm of Waste Management Inc. of Oak Brook, Ill., is the largest administrative fine in the history of the EPA. It is far less than the $6.8 million the agency sought in a complaint charging that Chemwaste illegally diluted liquid PCB wastes and sold the result as reclaimed oil, and that it illegally stored PCB wastes in lagoons at a Vickery, Ohio, landfill. The EPA said that it accepted a smaller fine because Chemwaste had agreed to take specific protective measures costing up to $25 million at the site.
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