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Thousands Assessed for Pollution in New Hampshire That They Didn't Cause.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2001
By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 3--Elliott Rowlands Jr. does business by the book. His auto sales and repair company in Kingston has never gotten in trouble for spilling so much as a drop of antifreeze.
But now, he has to pay $1,663 to help clean a hazardous waste site in New Hampshire because 285 gallons of motor oil he legally disposed of a decade ago wound up there. The US Environmental Protection Agency is sending more than 2,000 bills to small businesses such as Rowlands's and public agencies such as the Hopedale Library, to pay part of what could be a $60 million cleanup of the sprawling Beede Waste Oil site in Plaistow, N.H.
And none of them did anything wrong.
"It's ridiculous," said...
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