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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Boeing Reaps Stimulus Millions To Clean Up Site It Was Fined For Polluting


One would think that the best candidate for a $15.9 million stimulus contract for environmental cleanup and monitoring might not be a company fined for dumping a toxic stew of pollutants at the same site. But one would be wrong, at least according to the federal government, which awarded the no-bid job to Boeing in July, reports the new investigative-reporting outfit California Watch.

Boeing's environmental rap sheet features a $471,000 fine from a regional California water-quality board in 2007 for 79 pollution violations involving toxic wastewater streaming into the Los Angeles River.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

SO typical of our Government. But we can't afford protective gear for our troops.