After years of declining financial penalties for Wisconsin polluters, Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has settled a case with no fine at all.
Schimel spokesman Johnny Koremenos said the Justice Department is proud of the court settlement reached in November that requires 3M Co. to spend an estimated $665,000 by August 2018 on improvements to pollution control equipment that failed repeatedly at two plants in Wausau.
Top environmental regulators said they weren’t aware of any case in the last 25 years in which a Wisconsin attorney general took a polluter to court without winning a penalty...
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