Owner, Builder of Solar Array Fined for Polluting Massachusetts Brook
April 20, 2021
A New Jersey solar energy company and utility Eversource have agreed to pay up to $310,000 in state fines to Massachusetts for allegedly violating state environmental laws that led to pollution of a brook and other protected areas.
The settlement with the state attorney general’s office alleges that, while constructing an 11.7-acre solar array in Southampton in 2018 and 2019, Eversource and CS Energy LLC violated regulations under the Wetlands Protection Act and Clean Waters Act. Eversource owns the array and CS Energy built it.
The consent decree was entered in Suffolk Superior Court earlier this month, The Daily Hampshire Gazette reported.