Perspective
Aug. 2, 2016
Increased efforts to enforce hazardous waste rules
The California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the earlier district attorney settlements with FedEx represent a new front in California's aggressive efforts to enforce the hazardous waste rules against non-industrial waste generators. By Meghan A. Quinn
In June, FedEx Ground Package System Inc. agreed to pay $3.4 million in civil penalties to resolve California Department of Toxic Substances Control allegations that it improperly handled, transported, stored, recycled and disposed of damaged packages of hazardous materials. The DTSC settlement also resolves an action brought by FedEx in the Eastern District of California in April 2014. Resolution of these two cases comes nearly...
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