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Halliburton failed to stop a massive gas leak. Now it claims key evidence was stolen.
When a ruptured well at Aliso Canyon started spewing toxic chemicals and heat-trapping methane gas, Southern California Gas Co. turned to another fossil-fuel giant to help stop the bleeding. It hired Boots & Coots, a company owned by the Houston oil services giant Halliburton. The company tried and failed six times to kill the faulty well. The leak lasted nearly four months.
The lawsuit, filed in Alameda County Superior Court, accuses the nation’s largest retailer of dumping lithium batteries, insecticide, aerosol cans, cleaning supplies, electronic waste, paint and LED lightbulbs as well as confidential customer information in landfills throughout the state from more than 300 Walmart stores. The lawsuit asks a judge to impose unspecified financial penalties against Walmart, which generated nearly $560 billion in revenue in fiscal 2021.
A customer in Walpole, Mass., pushes a shopping cart outside a Walmart store in September 2019. The retailer has been sued for alleged dumping of hazardous waste in California landfills.Journalist Kari Paul has an interesting essay about being part of the press covering the proceedings. One person showed up with a sign reading “Holmes Balwani not guilty on all charges.” A gaggle of women with blond hair dressed like Holmes attended several days in support of the medical entrepreneur.
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