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* USA - Cumberland trucking firm fined $80,000 on federal hazardous waste charges
Providence,RI,USA -The Providence Business News -Jun 13, 2007: -- Berkeley Transportation Co. yesterday was fined $80,000 in federal court for illegally shipping hazardous waste from a property in East Greenwich to a trucking depot in Warwick in 2004, U.S. Attorney Robert Clark Corrente announced... The Cumberland-based company also paid $35,000 in restitution to the R.I. Department of Emergency Management’s Environmental Response Fund. Both penalties were part of a plea agreement the trucking company entered into in December... The DEM began an investigation after receiving a report that trailers containing leaking drums had been abandoned at the depot, prosecutors said... “The proper management, transportation and disposal of hazardous waste and damaged freight by the trucking industry is critical to the safety of our citizens and the environment,” said Michael E. Hubbard, special agent in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Criminal Investigation Division, which investigated the case along with the DEM’s Office of Criminal Investigation...
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