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Environment

  Wal-Mart Settles Clean Air Violations; Companies To Pay Combined $14.9 Million For Cleanup

  Connecticut Attorney General Sues Three Walmarts, Two Sam's Clubs For Failing To Obtain DEP Permits

  State Files Suit Against Wal Mart For Environmental Violations at Construction Site For New Store In Stratford

  State of Connecticut Sues WAL-MART For Environmental Violations

Size Cap

  OldSaybrook, Connecticut - Bans Superstores - Aug 1, 2002

  Connecticut and General Information on Size Caps (55KB)

  Stafford Springs, CT. Planning Commission Approves Size Cap 04-01-06

Workplace Violations

  Displaced Wal-Mart Workers Fear For Benefits Employees At Store That's Closing Say Comparable - Jobs Policy Would Hurt Them - July 23, 2009

  Wal-Mart to settle wage suits: The giant retailer settles 63 class action suits alleging it shortchanged workers on their break time. Total cost: between $352 million and $640 million December 24, 2008

  WAL-MART NOT OFF THE HOOK YET – CT Legislators Outline Proposal To Address the Retail Giant's Disregard For Child Labor Laws

  Connecticut Attorney General's Office News Release Blumenthal Announces $325,000 Settlement with Wal-Mart and Sam's

  Connecticut Attorney General's Statement On Wal-Mart Child Labor Law Violations

  June 21, 2005 Press Release: Governor Rell Announces Results of State Investigation of Wal-Mart Stores

  ABC News : Connecticut Questions Federal Wal-Mart Deal

  Connecticut Workplace Violations Report - Information obtained via a FOI request to the Connecticut Department of Labor Wage and Workplace Standard Division (1705 KB)

  Wal-Mart Cited For Violating Child Labor Laws

  Rally Against Discrimination at New Britain CT Wal-Mart

  Governor Rell Confident Tougher Child Labor Laws Will Better Protect Young Workers

Crime

  Three people charged in Lisbon heroin bust at the entrance to Wal-Mart

  Putnam, Windham, Lisbon : Wal-Mart Crime Report 2001-2008 (3624KB)

  State Police Investigate Shooting Outside Putnam Wal-Mart on 11/17/06

  Walmart Police Report - Putnam (96KB)

Taxes / Revenue

  Wal-Mart fined, fesses up to charging illegal taxes in Connecticut - December 7, 2008

  Wal-Mart Caught Scamming Billions From State Taxpayers (611KB)

  Wal-Mart : Rolling Back Property Tax Payments 2007 (402KB)

  Think Brooklyn Blog

  Husky Health Insurance —Enrollment and Employer Data

Connecticut Law Violations

  Wal-Mart Litigation - Legal Notes 2008

  Wal-Mart Litigation - Legal Notes 2007

  Wal-Mart Litigation - Legal Notes 2006

  Wal-Mart Litigation - Legal Notes 2005

  Wal-Mart Litigation - Legal Notes 2004

  Wal-Mart Litigation - Legal Notes 2003

  Wal-Mart Violates CT Sales Tax Refund Law

  Connecticut Probes Wal-Mart Pricing

Miscellaneous

  Best Buy Not Coming to Lisbon Development: Sep 9, 2009

  New Britain Wal-Mart To Close In August - WFSB - 7/1/09

  DeLauro Helps Kick Off “Love Mom, Not Wal-Mart Campaign” -- Requests Wal-Mart CEO Disclose Wage Statistics for Review - 4/26/05

  DeLauro Calls Wal-Mart Memo ‘Smoking Gun’ - – Reveals Retailer’s Hostile, Anti-Worker Employee Benefits Strategy – 10/26/05

  Beyond the Wal-Mart, America's Dying Middle-Class

  Small Business Closes after two Years of Tight Credit, Declining Customers and Competition from Big Box Stores: Jan 10, 2009

  Loss of Local Businesses - Hartford Courant Mar 5, 2009

  Images of the Pollution and Litter at the Putnam Wal-Mart

  Rte 6 Businesses Square Footage - 2009 (18KB)

  CT Green and Growing Press Release

  CT Office of Responsible Growth

  CT Smart Growth

  Stop Brooklyn Wal-Mart

  Brooklyn + Walmart = ERROR  ( Created by a concerned student at Woodstock Academy )

  WINY AM 1350 - Interview with Brooklyn's First Selectman 10/30/08 (77MB)

  CT AFL-CIO The REAL Wal-Mart Story

Billboards

  Governor Rell issued an executive order directing that no new contracts for Billboards

  Governor Rell Says “No” to Billboards on State Land

  Governor Rell Offers Testimony on Billboard Ban to Transportation Committee

  CT Governor Rell Issues Executive Order Prohibiting Billboards on State Property

  National: Scenic America - Change is inevitable. Ugliness is not.

Site Fight Websites

  Concerned Citizens for the Preservation of Watertown

  1/14/09 Groton, CT Developer Calls It Quits On Wal-Mart Supercenter

  Canton Advocates for Responsible Expansion

  Simsbury Homeowners Advocating Responsible Development

  Smart Growth for Vernon

  Stafford First : Citizens for Responsible Growth

  Stop The Killingly Wal-Mart

Brooklyn Site Fight


Links

Videos

  Free Hugs Campaign (The power of One)

  Wal-Mart Workers for Change

  Wal-Mart discriminates against the Disabled

  Wal-Mart corporate policy to waste food rather than donate to food pantries

  Walmart Exposed – Prepared food unsafe!

  How Wal-Mart Came to Haslett

  Thinking of shopping at Wal-Mart this holiday season?

  Big Box Mart

  Who pays for the products at Wal-Mart?

  Going Crazy for Wal-Mart – Wal-Mart fights to avoid paying health care for its workers

Property Values

  Wal-Mart Denied Permit Due to Negative Effects on Property Values

  Walmart's Impact on Commercial Property Values

  Lake Charles, Louisiana: A Case Profile : Impact of Wal-Mart on Property Value

Property Taxes

   Wal-Mart Systematically Challenges Property Tax Assessments, Cutting Support For Public Schools And Other Local Government Services

  Wal-Mart Rolling Back Property Tax Payments

  Wal-Mart’s Great Tax Dodge

Environment

  Importance of Imperviousness

  Cost and Benefit Analysis of Water Pollution

  Center for Watershed Protection

  IMPACTS of Impervious Cover on Aquatic Systems

  Ohio Nursery Gets Salty Problem From Big-Box Development (275KB)

  Nursery and Wal-Mart in Salty Dispute (42KB)

Workplace Violations

  Wal-Mart will pay $17.5 million to settle racial bias lawsuit - February 21, 2009

  Wal-Mart Settles Disability Lawsuit - January 23, 2009

  Court Finds Wal-Mart Repeatedly and Willfully Violated Minnesota Labor Laws - Thousands of employees denied breaks, pay for hours worked - July 1, 2008

  Wal-Mart pays $54 Million to settle wage complains

  Massachusetts jury awards $2 million in Wal-Mart bias suit

  Wal-Mart Face $2 Billion in Penalties for Wage Violations

  Judge OKs class-action status for Wal-Mart suit - Pennsylvania case charges employees were pressured for off-clock work

  Wal-Mart suit to go forward – Boston

  Wal-Mart suit granted class status - Boston

Workplace Issues

  Wal-Mart pays $2M to avoid charges in death probe

  Wal-Mart: Brain-damaged Former Employee Can Keep Money

  Wal-Mart suit hits 401(k) fees Lawsuit argues $9.5 billion plan used overpriced funds with underwhelming returns at employees’ expense

  Black Friday : Wal-Mart worker Trampled to Death

Crime

  Teen Wounded; 1 Arrested in New Hampshire Wal-Mart Shooting - Mar 4, 2009

  Police Respond to Wal-Mart Shooting in Miami - Mar 4, 2009

  Elderly Woman Killed in Arizona Wal-Mart Shooting - Mar 2, 2009

  1 Dead, 1 Injured in Texas Wal-Mart Shooting - Aug 26, 2007

  Perris, California Wal-Mart Shooting - Dec 25, 2006

  Crime & Walmart Report (178KB)

Taxes / Revenue

  The Costs of Wal-Mart - Bozeman Daily Chronicle, August 16, 2006

  The Hidden Costs of Wal-Mart's Every-day Low Prices - June 05, 2006

  Wal-Mart Loses Tax Case Ruling - January 5, 2008

  Barnstable, MA Fiscal Impact Study

  http://newrules.org/retail/index.php (The Hometown Advantage)

  How Wal-Mart Uses Taxpayer Money to Finance Its Never Ending Growth

  Wal-Mart suit plows ahead - North Carolina, retailer raise storm of paper in fight over $30 million in taxes

State Law Violations

  Wal-Mart and California Settle Pricing Suit for $1.4 Million

Big Box Research Information

  As Retailers Cut Back Cities Confront 'Ghostboxes' - 7/6/09

  The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart - 12/19/07

  The Wal-Mart You Don't Know - 12/19/07

  Supersizing Small Town America: Using Regionalism to Right-Size Big Box Retail

  Low Impact Development For Big Box Retailers - November 2005

  Anti-Big Box Chain and Pro-Local Business Groups

  Big Box Industry : Promoting a Responsible Economy

  Anti-WalMart and Pro-WalMart Groups and Websites

  Community and Environmental Defense Services

  Big Box Tool Kit - Countering Mega-Retailers - Rebuilding Local Business

  How Big Is Too Big? (67KB)

  Key Studies on Big Box Retail

  Living Wage Policies and Wal-Mart

  Wal-Mart Seeks Unbiased Research and Gets It

  Wal-Mart The High Cost of Low Prices (DVD)

  Wal-Mart The High Cost of Low Prices (Facts)

  Big Box Economic Impact Studies

  Sprawl Busters - Brooklyn, CT

  http://walmartwatch.com/

  http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/

  Big-Box Christmas Trees Replacing Saws and Snow

  Wal-Mart : Global Giant

Miscellaneous

  Walmart's Project Impact: A Move to Crush Competition (Time 9/9/2009)

  The price of Wal-Mart coming to town (msn.money 7/28/2009)

  Wal-Mart's Faulty Impact Report Leads California Judge to Block Project - May 22, 2009

  Historians Battle Wal-Mart Over Key Civil War Site - Jan 2, 2009

  High Tension at Wal-Mart Meeting - Commission Votes to Deny Certification of Final Revised Environmental Impact Report for Supercenter - Oct 9, 2008

  Family Business Shut Their Doors When Wal-Mart Comes to Town

  Watch out Wal-Mart, Aldi is ready to storm the US - January 13, 2009

  PBS: Is Wal-Mart Good for America (Online Video)

  The Story of Stuff

National Site Fight Websites

  Hercules vs. Goliath: Wal-Mart DENIED by small town - May 25, 2006

  Communities That Have Beaten a Big-Box Store

  Other Towns Opposing Wal-Mart


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