Recycling Firm Executives Fined for Polluting Water
<i> Associated Press</i>
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —
Two executives of an oil-recycling company were sentenced to more than four years in prison for pumping oils and other untreated waste into city sewers in violation of the Clean Water Act. Cherokee Resources was fined $50,000. Its president, Keith Eidson, 37, was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, and Vice President Gabe Hartsell, 60, must pay $10,000.
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