America Online Inc.,
a Dulles-based Internet services provider, paid $1.25
million in penalties
and costs, and agreed to reform its customer service
practices to settle an investigation by the attorney
general's office of New York. Consumer complaints about
failure to cancel service and stop billing led to the
probe. (The Associated Press)
Colonna's Shipyard Inc. of Norfolk, agreed
to pay a $40,000 fine for flushing thousands of gallons
of wastewater contaminated with a toxic pesticide,
TBT, into the Elizabeth River. (The Virginian-Pilot)
Newdunn Associates, a Norfolk commercial real
estate firm, settled a dispute over development of
wetlands. The company agreed to pay $250,000, and restore
26 acres of land to wetlands from a 43-acre site it
had begun to develop in 2001 without a federal wetlands
permit. The company argued in a lawsuit, which it unsuccessfully
attempted to take to the Supreme Court, that federal
regulation of wetlands could not be enforced in the
absence of a navigable waterway. (Daily Press)
