It has signed an administrative resolution with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resolve compliance issues that took place years ago.
This resolution follows previous civil settlements Walmart entered into with the State of California in 2010 and the State of Missouri in 2012 that addressed the same facts the federal government in this case raised and which Walmart has already remedied.
The incidents on which the charges are based occurred years ago and involved the transportation and disposal of common consumer products.
No specific environmental impact has been alleged and since then, Walmart designed and implemented comprehensive environmental programmes that remain in place today.
“Walmart has a comprehensive and industry leading hazardous waste programme,” said Phyllis Harris, senior vice president and chief compliance officer, Walmart US. “The programme was built around training, policies and procedures on how to safely handle consumer products that become hazardous waste, and we continue to run the same programme in every store and club that was deployed years ago. We are pleased that this resolves all of these issues raised by the government.”
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