Bristol-Myers Squibb to clean up facilities
Pharma Compliance Alert, July 16, 2008
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) will spend $3.65 million to reduce the output of ozone-depleting refrigerants at industrial facilities around the country. The investment is an attempt to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) release.
As part of the deal, BSM will retire or retrofit 17 industrial refrigeration units by July 2009 at facilities in Mt. Vernon and Evansville, Ind.; Hopewell, N.J.; and Humacao and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. BMS agreed to perform a supplemental environment project that will involve retiring two comfort cooling units at its New Brunswick, N.J., plant and connecting the air conditioners to the company’s new centralized refrigeration system.
In addition, BMS will take steps to assure compliance with the EPA regulations at 13 of its facilities and pay $127,000 in civil penalties.
BMS is the second company to pay a clean air fine in recent weeks. On June 23, Pfizer agreed to pay a $975,000 civil penalty to resolve allegations it violated the Clean Air Act at its former manufacturing plant in Groton, CT between October 2002 and December 2005.
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