Anheuser-Busch Inc. this week pleaded no contest and was ordered to pay more than $53,000 in criminal penalties for a chemical spill last February that polluted the Sepulveda Basin wildlife area.
The plea in Los Angeles Municipal Court stemmed from the discharge of about 6,000 gallons of a caustic solution into Haskell Creek, a storm channel that flows through Sepulveda Basin about three miles from the Van Nuys brewery.
