1991 to 2000 WMI Judgments

   During this ten year period we know of $352 million of legal judgments and settlements by Waste Management Inc. that are in addition to the environmental compliance history of WMI.

   The following material are comes from two additional sources, EBIC and the Indiana Department of Environment Management (IDEM) which in 1997 declared Chemical Waste Management (now wholly owned by WMI) as failing to be of "good character" according to their state's waste management ethics law.

Chemical Waste Management Judgments (IDEM as source))

    2/14/92 Illinois Cause 83-CH-2266 - mischaracterized waste as nonhazardous PENALTY: $25,000

    7/4/92 Alabama DEM Cause 92-156-HW - manifest issue PENALTY: $25,000

    7/29/92 California Cause 723347 - Haz waste spill PENALTY: $65,000

    8/9/92 Lackawanna Superfund Cause HWCA 92/93-022 - 6 guilty pleas PENALTY: $3,000,000

    11/13/92  California EPA Cause - operational violations PENALTY: $65,000

    12/31/92 USEPA Region V Cause V-W-R-8 - incinerator violations PENALTY: $275,000

    7/7/93 Louisiana DEQ Cause HE-P-90-05-88 - regulations interpretation PENALTY: $25,000

    11/30/93 Louisiana DEQ Cause HE-C-99-210 - Lake Charles violations PENALTY: $261,918

    4/8/94 USEPA Region VI Cause RCRA VI-304-H - ash analysis PENALTY: $15,000

    8/1/94 USEPA Region V Cause TSCA-V-C-30-93 - violations toxics PENALTY: $17,350

    6/24/94 Alabama DEM Cause 94-084-CHW - PCB waste disposal PENALTY: $35,000

    9/26/94 USEPA Region VI Cause RCRA-VI-94-1618 - sampling violation PENALTY: $65,000

    6/1/95 Illinois EPA Cause 91-CH-529 - incinerator operations PENALTY: $1,900,000

              Illinois Epa Cause 93-ch-264 - new consent decree PENALTY: $250,000

Judgments Reported by the Environmental Background Information Center (EBIC)

    12/91 Chemical Waste Management (CWM) fined $3.3 million re: Sauget, IL facility

    10/15/92 CWM paid record $11,600,000 at Pa. Superfund site as environmental crime

    10/94 CWM whistle blower in Chicago - $587,900 penalty

    11/94 Penna class action lawsuit on groundwater contamination - $60,000 paid

    12/96 Tenn Federal judge fine of $91,500,000 in fraudulent scheme.

    3/7/97 WMI Odell arrested for wire tapping - settled 10/00 for $5 million.

    10/97 OSHA $100,000 re: 3 WMI workers deaths in 1996 separate accidents.

    10/98 State of Virginia fine of $125,000 for improper     12/14/98 WMI settled shareholders' securities lawsuit for $220,000,000.