Environmental
May 15, 2012
Consulting company charged with fraud in environmental cleanup
The State Water Resources Control Board Office of Enforcement has filed charges against the owners of Hayden Environmental Inc., claiming the company overbilled the state's Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
One perennial problem with government funding is bureaucratic red tape. So when the state Legislature created a fund to pay for cleanup of contamination caused by underground storage tanks, lawmakers tried to made it easy for contractors to claim expenses. But it's beginning to look like they made it too easy.
"Unscrupulous people took advantage of that," said Cris Carrigan, Director of th...
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