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A Penalty Unaffected by Prior Remediation Costs
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2000.tb09065.x
Subject(s) - commonwealth , corporation , law , engineering , business , forensic engineering , political science
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has upheld a civil penalty of $3.2 million against Westinghouse Electric Corporation for violations of the state's clean streams law. The court said that the civil penalty was not excessive, even though the company had already spent millions of dollars to remediate the site.