Stink = $25,000

The Joplin Globe reported Thursday, November 16, 2006, that staff with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) documented excessive odors in their 'scent-o-meter' Tuesday (11/14/06). Based on a settlement last summer (with the City of Carthage and Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon), Renewable Environmental Services LLC (RES) agreed to pay $25,000 per violation in the future. I guess that means Stink = $25,000.