Polluter Must Pay Fines to Environmental Groups
A London-based chemical company was ordered Monday to pay nearly $200,000 in penalties, most of it in the form of contributions to environmental groups, for discharging toxic waste into the Los Angeles sewer system.
ICI Americas Inc., an American subsidiary of the multinational corporation ICI, was ordered to give $165,000 of a total $194,000 in penalties to nonprofit environmental groups after pleading no contest to 10 counts of discharging hazardous waste into the city sewer system, the city attorney’s office said.
The circuit board manufacturing plant was accused of discharging raw and improperly treated waste water containing acids, heavy metals and other toxics from its ARBCO Electronics plant at 7820 Gloria Ave. in Van Nuys between December, 1989, and January, 1990.
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