Wal-Mart Will Pay $81.6 Million in Pollutant Dumping Case
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, will pay $81.6 million after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges that its stores improperly disposed of hazardous waste throughout California in 2003 and 2004.
Corrosive and hazardous liquid waste from common consumer products were dumped into drains of public sewers owned by local sanitation districts in violation of U.S. laws, prosecutors said today in a federal court filing in San Francisco.