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CWM Fined for Violations


Here's a picture of the sort of thing that got CWM in trouble

This week Chemical Waste Management was fined $175,000 by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for violating its permits and the state’s hazardous waste laws. I don’t have much to say about that, except it doesn’t seem to me like too much money.

Last year, AV associate editor Buck Quigley and his band played a gig up at CWM’s annual open house. It rained.

For the especially interested, the press release from DEC follows after the jump.

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