A company in Maplewood, Minn will pay a penalty of $2.8 million after Minnesota regulators found a series of hazardous waste violations at its facility which has since been shut down.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency said Thursday its two-year investigation found that since 1996, the company repeatedly misidentified hazardous waste shipped to the incinerator as nonhazardous. Other violations occurred elsewhere, including failing to verify levels of mercury, lead, nickel, cadmium, arsenic and other hazardous materials in some waste streams from 2014 to 2020.
Investigators also cited the company for storing 1,300 containers of hazardous waste in unapproved areas and for releases from compromised storage containers.
MPCA said the Maplewood-based company has made two dozen corrections to bring the facility into compliance with its hazardous waste permit, the Star Tribune reported.
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