Walgreens ordered to pay $16.57 million settlement for illegal dumping of hazardous waste, violation of customer information

RIVERSIDE – Today, Dec. 13, 2012, Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach, along with 42 other DA’s Offices and two City Attorney’s Offices throughout the state announced that an Alameda County judge has ordered Walgreen Co. to pay $16.57 million as part of a settlement in a civil environmental prosecution.

The final judgment is the culmination of a civil enforcement lawsuit filed on June 18, 2012, in Alameda County Superior Court claiming that more than 600 Walgreens stores statewide unlawfully handled and disposed of various hazardous wastes and materials over a 6 ½-year per...