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Indonesia: Palm Oil Company Fined Millions for Burning Sumatran Forest

2014-01-13 01:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environment News Service: An Indonesian court has found the palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally burning large swathes of the Tripa peat forest, which lies within Sumatra`s Leuser Ecosystem, the only place on Earth where tigers, elephants, rhinos, and orangutans can be found living together in the wild. The court ordered the company to pay 114.3 billion rupiah (US$9.4 million) in compensation and 251.7 billion rupiah (US$20.8 million) to restore the affected areas of forest. The case was brought against...

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Sugar company fined for water quality violation

2013-08-21 08:58:43| Sugar Industry News

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Federal regulators say the Amalgamated Sugar Co. has agreed to pay $7,500 for violating the Clean Water Act at its facility in Paul, Idaho.

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Insurance company WellPoint fined 1.7 million over data exposure

2013-07-12 13:59:42| InfoWorld: Top News

Insurance provider WellPoint has agreed to pay a $1.7 million fine for exposing more than 600,000 personal records online due to weak database security, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) said Thursday. WellPoint, based in Indianapolis, is one the largest health insurers in the United States, with more than 100 million customers covered by it and its subsidiaries.

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