Information about Nestle Waters North America Inc.'s license to operate a bottled water facility on federal land in California is exempt from disclosure under a Freedom of Information Act request.
The government properly withheld the information under exemptions for trade secrets, deliberative process, and wells, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said Feb. 4.
The Story of Stuff Project, an environmental group, filed the FOIA request for information regarding Nestle’s operation in the San Bernadino National Forest, which includes tunnels, wells, transmission pipelines, and associated structures. The government produced thousands of pages of responsive material but withheld ...
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