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Article

31 Aug 2001

Author:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Mississippi company [Truck Trailer and Equipment, Inc.], employees charged with conspiracy

The indictment alleges that spent solvents and other wastes were dumped from truck cleaning activities into a wetland and a Pearl River tributary bordering its facility. It is further alleged that when ordered by public safety officials to stop the dumping, the defendants arranged to dump the caustic wastes into an outlying area in Rankin County.