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Washington D.C.’s Attorney General Brian Schwalb announced an environmental settlement in which Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) agreed to pay $57 million for cleanup and penalties for its alleged contamination of the Anacostia River. The company will spend $47 million toward cleaning the Anacostia River, as well as contamination found at its Buzzard Point and Benning Road facilities. Pepco will spend an additional $10 million toward penalties. AG Schwalb states that Pepco’s pollution of the Anacostia River was “chronic, illegal, and intentional.”