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Friday's ruling officially renders the company's brand new $1 million Levins Laboratory, specially designed for the safe testing of the toxic gases, inactive for an indefinite period of time...
WARNING, began the full-page advertisement in the Los Angeles Times last week. The ad explained that by the time anyone read it, two executives of American Caster Corp. would be in jail. The publicity was part of the punishment given the firm for burying 254 drums of toxic and flammable waste and dumping pollutants into Los Angeles sewers. The company also had to pay $40,000 in fines and cleanup costs. The two jailed officials: President Carl De La Torre and Vice President Ramon Garroba...
American Caster, a furniture-equipment maker, was nabbed by the Los Angeles Toxic Waste Strike Force, a team formed of police, sheriff and sanitation and health officials. The unit has devised unusual penalties for big polluters. Among those caught was a Los Angeles franchise of Culligan International, which was found guilty of improper toxic-waste disposal. It had to supply free, bottled, purified water to several customers, and its president spent three months in jail and paid a $100,000 fine. Confessional ads are the latest strike-force tactic. Says Barry Groveman, who directs the special unit: "An ad like...
After its plant in Bhopal, India, leaked deadly methyl isocyanate in December and killed at least 1,400 people, Union Carbide stopped making the pesticide ingredient at its facility in Institute, W. Va. Last week officials of the U.S. company announced that they expect to resume production of the toxic chemical at the Institute plant by April 1. Before that time, Union Carbide will have completed its investigation of the Bhopal disaster...
...scheduled a public meeting with local residents and members of North Cambridge Toxic Alert, a citizens environmental group, for March...