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Rum Distiller Bacardi Must Stop Polluting Atlantic Ocean

Environment News Service, September, 2005

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (ENS) — --> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered the Bacardi Corporation to comply with the Clean Water Act. The agency says Bacardi has been violating limits for wastewater discharges into the Atlantic Ocean from its rum distillery in Catano, Puerto Rico.

Bacardi must meet limits on the amount of lead, zinc, copper and all other materials it currently discharges into the ocean. The EPA has issued Bacardi an administrative order for violating its permit, under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program.

"Following repeated attempts to come to a resolution, EPA determined that it was in the best interest of environmental protection to proceed with a unilateral order and require Bacardi to comply,"...

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