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Trucking Company Ordered to Pay $3 Million for Illegally Transporting Hazardous Materials from the
Trucking Company Ordered to Pay $3 Million for Illegally Transporting Hazardous Materials from the Exide Battery Recycling Plant in VernonLOS ANGELES – A trucking company has been ordered to pay $3 million for illegally transporting more than 64 tons of hazardous, lead-contaminated plastic battery chips from the now-closed Exide Technologies battery recycling facility in Vernon to a company in Bakersfield.
Wiley Sanders Truck Lines, Inc., which is based in Troy, Alabama, was ordered Monday to pay the money as part of a sentence that placed the company on probation for three years.
United States District Judge Percy Anderson imposed the sentence, describing the company’s conduct as “an environmental disaster for Vernon and the surrounding area.”
As part of the sentence, Judge Anderson ordered Wiley Sanders to pay a $1.5 million fine – the statutory maximum – and a $1.5 million community service payment to the Exide Residential Assistance Fund established by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to support residents affected by lead contamination near the facility.
Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/trucking-company-ordered-pay-3-million-illegally-transporting-hazardous-materials-exide
