environmental settlement News
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Cottonwood Creek, Inc. to pay $170,000 for Clean Water Act violations at oil pumping facility in Big Horn County, Wyoming
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a settlement with Enid, Oklahoma-based Cottonwood Creek, Inc. in which the company has agreed to pay a $170,000 penalty to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act related to oil pollution at the Bonanza Station in Big Horn County, Wyoming. The agreement resolves alleged violations of the Clean Water Act’s requirements for ...
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City of South Bend agrees to improve sewer system to address clean water act violations
The United States Attorney’s Office and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that the City of South Bend, Indiana has agreed to make an estimated $509.5 million worth of improvements to its combined sewer system to significantly reduce overflows of raw sewage to the St. Joseph River, which is a tributary of Lake Michigan. One well-known stretch of the St. Joseph ...
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Idaho mining company agrees to pay $1.4 million penalty to settle alleged clean water act violations WASHINGTON
The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that P4 Production LLC (P4), a mining and phosphorus processing company wholly-owned by Monsanto and operating near Soda Springs in southeast Idaho, has agreed to pay a $1.4 million civil penalty for alleged Clean Water Act violations at its South Rasmussen Mine. In addition to the penalty, P4 will spend an ...
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Offshore Oil Platform Owner to Improve Safety and Operations in Gulf of Mexico Following Unauthorized Oil Discharges
Under a settlement agreement with the United States, ATP Infrastructure Partners, LP (ATP-IP) will pay a $1 million civil penalty and perform corrective measures to resolve claims by the U.S. under the Clean Water Act and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) of unauthorized discharges of oil and chemicals from an oil platform into the Gulf of Mexico, announced the U.S. Environmental ...
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Armstrong environmental services to pay $35,000 penalty for clean water act violations at Lancaster, Pa. Facility
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a settlement with Armstrong Environmental Services (AES) over alleged Clean Water Act violations at the company’s waste processing and disposal facility in Lancaster, Pa. AES agreed to pay a $35,000 penalty for allegedly exceeding permit limits when discharging industrial wastewater pollutants to the City of Lancaster Wastewater ...
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Companies settle alleged environmental violations at Hercules Franklin Plant in Courtland, Va.
The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have reached a settlement with Hercules Inc. and GEO Specialty Chemicals, Inc. who have agreed to pay a $700,000 penalty for alleged violations of several federal environmental laws. In an earlier January 2011 settlement, Eastman Specialty Chemicals, Inc., which owned and operated a portion of the ...
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Company Agrees to Upgrade 18 Wastewater Facilities in Mississippi to Stop Illegal Discharges of Sewage
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Department of Justice and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality announced a proposed settlement today with Total Environmental Solutions, Inc. (TESI) and Utility Services, LLC to address violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA), including effluent violations and unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage. These companies have ...
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EPA Settlement with Beltsville, Md. Company Improves Oil Spill Prevention and Protects Anacostia River
As part of a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Greenlight WVO LLC, located in Beltsville, Maryland, has come into compliance with oil spill prevention requirements to resolve EPA claims that the company was not prepared to prevent or contain an oil spill. These spill prevention improvements will better protect Beltsville residents and the local waterway, Indian Creek, a ...
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An EPA Settlement with Seaboard Asphalt Products Helps Protect Baltimore, Maryland Residents.
As part of a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Seaboard Asphalt Products Company, located on Asiatic Ave. in Baltimore, has come into compliance with oil spill prevention and response requirements. Their compliance will help protect Baltimore residents and the environment. The company has also agreed to pay a $60,000 penalty for these alleged violations. Under the Clean ...
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Pennsylvania Company to pay $25,347 penalty for inadequate oil spill prevention at Harrisville, Pa. facility
In a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Heath Oil, Inc., headquartered in Franklin, Pa., has agreed to pay a $25, 347 penalty for alleged violations of oil spill prevention regulations at an oil storage facility located at 5609 State Route 8 in Harrisville, Pa. Under the Clean Water Act, all owners of oil storage facilities must develop and implement a spill prevention, ...
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U.S. EPA settles with East Bay MUD over hazardous waste violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) for improper management of hazardous waste at its Oakland wastewater treatment plant. The public utility agreed to pay a $99,900 penalty. EPA conducted a site inspection at EBMUD wastewater treatment plant in 2014 under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and ...
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Clean Water Act settlement ensures that Boston racetrack addresses wastewater and stormwater discharges
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Sterling Suffolk Racecourse LLC will pay a civil penalty of $1.25 million to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) at its Suffolk Downs racetrack facility in Revere and East Boston, Mass. The company is also spending more than $3 million to prevent polluted water from entering nearby waterways ...
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Delta Western upgrades Dillingham facility to comply with federal oil spill prevention laws
Delta Western, Inc. has resolved violations of federal oil spill prevention laws at its facility in Dillingham, Alaska, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice. The facility, which is a critical supplier of fuel to a remote community, is located on the shores of the Nushagak River, home to one of the most productive sockeye salmon ...
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ST products to pay $75,000 penalty for clean water act violations at Blair County, Pa. facility
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a settlement with ST Products resolving alleged Clean Water Act violations at the company’s metal tube fabrication facility in Duncansville, Blair County, Pa. ST Products agreed to pay a $75,000 penalty for allegedly exceeding permit limits when discharging industrial wastewater pollutants to the wastewater treatment plant operated ...
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U.S. settles clean water act violations with Koehler-Bright Star Inc.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a settlement of a Clean Water Act case against Koehler-Bright Star Inc. (KBS), a battery manufacturer in Hanover Township, Luzerne County. EPA alleged that the company exceeded the limits of pollutants the facility is allowed to discharge to the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Sewer Authority (WVSSA), also in Hanover. According to EPA, KBS violated ...
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Massey Energy to pay largest civil penalty ever for water permit violations
Massey Energy Company, Inc. has agreed to pay a $20 million civil penalty in a corporate-wide settlement to resolve Clean Water Act violations at coal mines in West Virginia and Kentucky, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced. This is the largest civil penalty in EPA’s history levied against a company for wastewater discharge permit violations. 'This is a ...
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EPA, Seattle truck repair firm settle water pollution case
Western Peterbilt, LLC, a Seattle truck sales and repair shop, has reached a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stemming from violations of the federal Clean Water Act. As part of the settlement, the company has agreed to pay $129,000 penalty for allowing both process wastewater and polluted stormwater to be discharged to the Seattle stormwater system without a permit. ...
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Huntington W.Va. settles storm water violations with EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a settlement of alleged Clean Water Act violations by the City of Huntington, W.Va. In a consent agreement with EPA, the City has agreed to pay a $15,000 penalty, and implement environmental projects to improve water quality in the Ohio River. The projects will have the added benefit of creating green space and reducing flooding in the ...
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U.S. EPA Requires AllenCo to Pay Penalty for Federal Violations
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with AllenCo Energy, Inc., requiring the company to pay $99,000 for violations of federal environmental laws. The penalty is in addition to the ongoing work identified in an April 2014 consent agreement with EPA. EPA’s November 2013 inspection, prompted by community complaints regarding emissions coming from the facility, ...
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Historic deal for Corps dam pollution
For the first time in its history, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will have to disclose the amount of pollutants its dams are sending into waterways in a groundbreaking legal settlement that could have broad implications for the Corps' hundreds of dams nationwide. The Corps announced in a settlement Monday that it will immediately notify the conservation group that filed the lawsuit of any ...
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