From the Office of the District Attorney:
Martinez, Calif. – Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton announced today (Friday, March 11) that the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office, together with 13 other California District Attorneys have agreed to a $2.5 million dollar settlement with Pick-N-Pull over the company’s illegal disposal of hazardous waste and stormwater pollution issues.
Pick-N-Pull operates 21 facilities in Northern California and is a subsidiary of Schnitzer Steel, Inc. The company buys end-of-life vehicles, sells their parts, and recycles the remaining steel. Contra Costa County joined forces with Santa Clara, San Joaquin, Sacramento, Alameda, and Solano counties to do a series of unannounced waste inspections. The investigation revealed that Pick-N-Pull facilities routinely and illegally disposed of automobile fluids, aerosols, batteries, and electronic devices.
“It is a priority to protect our environment and especially our water ways (sic) from harmful pollutants,” said District Attorney Diana Becton. “When contacted by prosecutors, Pick-N-Pull promptly implemented improved training procedures and practices relating to their hazardous waste disposal.”
The judgement provides for $1,850,000 in civil penalties, $350,000 in costs of enforcement, injunctive provisions requiring the implementation of compliance assurance measures as well as $350,000 to environmental projects, which includes the Contra Costa County Fish and Wildlife Propagation Fund.
A judgment or an agreet settlement. Very different.
Beaton tryig to coat til other DA’sa to save her back side. election comoing up
Has anyone figured out where all those catalytic converters are going?
I’ll admit I thought Pick n Pull was some sort of caribbean style restaurant but I commend them for taking steps to clean things up!
Big news, this.
Yet felons walk free among us, unpunished for crimes committed.
I’d rather have a tough on crime DA than this woman.