{"id":2439,"date":"2018-06-05T13:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2018-06-05T13:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T13:23:54","slug":"home-depot-agrees-to-pay-27-84-million-settlement-for-illegal-disposal-of-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/home-depot-agrees-to-pay-27-84-million-settlement-for-illegal-disposal-of-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Depot Agrees to Pay $27.84 Million Settlement for Illegal Disposal of Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"

environmental Strategist\u00ae, between the lines:<\/strong>\u00a0 As we have reported for more than two decades, Illegal disposal of waste in the United States is a tens of billions of dollars a year industry.<\/p>\n

What does a company look like that illegally disposes of waste?\u00a0 Besides Home Depot, illegal disposers or waste that have paid government fines and penalties include Wal-Mart, AT&T, Lowes, Costco, Safeway Grocery stores to name a few.<\/p>\n

Under Federal law, property owners are ultimately responsible for the environmental condition of their property regardless of who caused the environmental liability.<\/p>\n

So, the real question for real estate owners, what is your financial assurance strategy should a third party contaminate your land?\u00a0 Environmental insurance policies can protect property owners should third parties contaminate their land.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/news\/press-releases\/attorney-general-becerra-home-depot-agrees-2784-million-settlement-violations<\/a><\/p>\n

A few more links to stories on companies identified as illegal disposers of waste.\u00a0 We could fill volumes with these exact same types of stories.<\/p>\n

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  1. http:\/\/www.rcrwireless.com\/20141121\/carriers\/att-fined-23-8m-for-illegal-disposal-of-hazardous-waste-tag2<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/business\/article19430040.html#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/29\/business\/wal-mart-is-fined-82-million-over-mishandling-of-hazardous-wastes.html?_r=0<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. http:\/\/www.pleasantonweekly.com\/news\/2014\/09\/17\/t-j-maxx-parent-hit-with-27-million-fine-for-dumping-hazardous-wastes<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. http:\/\/www.sustainablebrands.com\/news_and_views\/waste_not\/mike_hower\/safeway_99_cents_only_fined_improper_hazardous_waste_disposal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    environmental Strategist\u00ae, between the lines:\u00a0 As we have reported for more than two decades, Illegal disposal of waste in the United States is a tens of billions of dollars a year industry. What does a company look like that illegally disposes of waste?\u00a0 Besides Home Depot, illegal disposers or waste that have paid government fines… Continue reading Home Depot Agrees to Pay $27.84 Million Settlement for Illegal Disposal of Waste<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,7],"tags":[349,263,348],"class_list":["post-2439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-featured","category-risk","category-webinars","tag-disposal","tag-home-depot","tag-illegal-waste","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estrategist.com\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}