Environmental

Scotts Lawn Service Fined $160,000 for Intentionally Polluting Water

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2012.  Coming just a month after Scotts Miracle Gro pleaded guilty in federal court to falsifying documents and selling bird seed tainted with pesticide, a the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has fined a Pennsylvania branch of Scotts Lawn Service $160,000 for dumping its waste water directly into a stream.

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In June of 2010 a Scotts employee built a syphon system to drain a tank of remaining weed killers, insecticides and synthetic…

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