In addition, the company will cleanup polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) contamination, complete a storm water monitoring program, conduct storm water sampling at several compressor stations and pay a $1.4 million civil penalty. We are pleased to seek the courts approval of this settlement and we look forward to seeing the benefits of this landmark action.. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced an agreement with the Stepan Co. of Northfield, Illinois, resolving allegations that the company through a distribution agreement with the Spartan Chemical Co. violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) on 89 occasions by selling or distributing a misbranded pesticide. requiring the companies to conduct a remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS) on Operable Unit 7 at the Pools Prairie Superfund site in Neosha, Missouri. Triad Mining Inc., the owner and operator of 31 surface mines in Appalachia and Indiana, has agreed to pay a penalty and to restore affected waterways for failing to obtain the required Clean Water Act (CWA) permit for stream impacts caused by its surface mining operation in Indiana, announced the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). On February 18, 2002, a Consent Decree in this matter was entered by the District Court, and subsequently modified on May 18, 2010. The state of Louisiana, a co-plaintiff in this case, will receive half of the civil penalty. The settlement requires PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer, AA Sulfuric Inc., and White Springs Agricultural Chemicals Inc. to install, upgrade and operate state-of-the-art pollution reduction measures, as well as install emissions monitors at eight sulfuric acid plants across facilities in Geismar, Louisiana (one plant), White Springs, Florida (four plants), and Aurora, North Carolina (three plants). Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP has agreed to make upgrades and perform compliance measures estimated to cost $118 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act and state air pollution control laws at three petrochemical manufacturing facilities located in Cedar Bayou, Port Arthur, and Sweeney, Texas. On May 12, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Precision National Plating Services, Inc. on a plan to clean up groundwater and surface water contamination at the Precision National Corporation site in Clarks Summit, Penn. million in past cleanup costs. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a Clean Air Act settlement with Utah-based Deseret Generation & Transmission Investments in pollution control equipment will keep hundreds of thousands of tons of harmful pollutants out of the air we breathe, and help create green job opportunities that will reduce pollution and improve energy efficiency. Consent Agreement and proposed settlement of Safe Drinking Water Act Administrative Penalty in the matter of Seven-Eleven Hawaii Inc. Docket No. (Washington, D.C. - March 14, 2007) Williams Refining Co., the former owner and operator of a Memphis, Tenn., petroleum refinery, has agreed to pay $2.2 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that the company violated the Clean Air Act (CAA), the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency announced. Revised Order Urging Electronic Filing and Service | US EPA The agreement settles claims that Amtrak violated numerous requirements of the Clean Water Act, including its storm water provisions, at nine Amtrak sites in New England. A 17,000 kg shipment of 680-25 kg bags of FORE 80 WP Rainshield Specialty Fungicide was denied entry/refused delivery. Storage of such hazardous wastes in ponds is prohibited by RCRA because of the potential threat to human health and the environment. Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice announced a settlement with the Churchill Downs Louisiana Horseracing Company LLC, d/b/a Fair Grounds Corporation (Fair Grounds) that will resolve years of Clean Water Act (CWA) violations at its New Orleans racetrack. As part of the settlement, the company will also implement a company-wide stormwater compliance program designed to improve compliance with storm water run-off requirements at existing and future construction sites around the country. Matador Production Company has agreed to pay a penalty and ensure compliance with both state and federal clean air regulations at all 239 of its New Mexico oil and gas well pads to resolve unlawful operations alleged in a civil complaint filed today under the Clean Air Act and state regulations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a proposed partial settlement with co-plaintiff Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) and the City of Harrisburg and Capital Region Water to resolve alleged Clean Water Act violations involving sewer overflows and discharges of polluted stormwater to the Susquehanna River and Paxton Creek. Clean Air Act Settlement, EPA Inspections Reveal Clean Water Act Violations by Former Dairy Owner near Rock Valley, Iowa, United Park City Mines agrees to clean up mine waste at Richardson Flat Superfund Site in Utah, CFMOTO Powersports, Inc., CFMOTO America, Inc., Zhejiang CFMOTO Power Co., Ltd., and Chunfeng Holding Group Co., Ltd. (Collectively CFMOTO) Clean Air Settlement. If EPA had discovered Kmarts violations through an inspection, the company would have faced a fine of more than $1.6 million. A consent decree modification was filed on Sept. 30, 2016 for Total Environmental Solutions, Inc. (TESI) for violations of the Clean Water Act. WASHINGTON, D.C. In a joint federal-state settlement, Mirant Mid-Atlantic (Mirant) has agreed to eliminate nearly 29,000 tons of harmful pollution each year generated by its four electricity generating plants in Maryland and Virginia. The settlement is the latest in a series of federal enforcement actions to address storm water violations from industrial facilities and construction sites around the country. Ohio Edison Company, W.H. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice today announced a settlement with Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P., for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act related to gasoline, diesel and jet fuel spills in Texas City, Texas, Nemaha, Neb. St. Joseph and Elkhart Rivers, and Christiana Creek. Each case has a brief description and a link to detailed information about the case. EPA Assessments i. EPA, DOJ, and the state of New Mexico announced a settlement with Chevron Mining, Inc. (CMI) requiring approximately $143 million in cleanup work at the Chevron Questa Mine Superfund Site. The agreement is valued at over $80 million and involves a mixed funding arrangement where the Agency would pay for approximately 40% of specific response costs incurred by Doe Run. EPA Issues $9 Million Order for Removal Work at the Columbia Nitrogen Superfund Site in S.C. Delphi Corporation Bankruptcy Settlement Provides Funding for Cleanup Work at Michigan and Ohio Sites, EPA Receives $14 Million for Cleanup Costs at Oklahoma Refining Company Superfund Site, EPA Issues AOC to Implement Final Remedy at Occidental Chemical Company Facility in West Virginia, CITGO Petroleum Corporation Clean Air Act Settlement, EPA Issues RCRA Cleanup Order for North Field Properties Site in New Jersey. (Washington, D.C. January 17, 2008) 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. 3-15-cv-0063-BR) (PDF) (9 pp, 122 K, May 31, 2016) Settlement Agreement for Northwest Environmental Advocates v. EPA (D. Ore.) Northwest Environmental Advocates v. EPA (No. TSCA Section 5(e) Consent Order for Premanufacture Notice (PMN - US EPA Office of Administrative Law Judges - US EPA Consent decree between the United States, the state of New Mexico, and Chevron Mining, Inc. (CMI), requiring $143 million in cleanup work at the Chevron Questa Mine Superfund site near the village of Questa, New Mexico. The original Decree put the City of Anderson (the City) on an enforceable schedule to: complete remedial measures by 2009, to address its combined sewer overflows from its sewer system; develop and implement an Emergency Response Plan; to undertake improvements to its Pretreatment Program. The settlement in this case totals $30 million and includes forty-nine different parties, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). EPA, the Department of Justice, and the State of Colorado today announced a settlement with PDC Energy, Inc., that will comprehensively identify and address issues with vapor control systems at PDCs condensate storage tank batteries. EPA's Assessment of Exposure and Risk V. EPA's Determination VI. No. Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (Alpha), one of the nations largest coal companies, Alpha Appalachian Holdings (formerly Massey Energy), and 66 subsidiaries have agreed to spend an estimated $200 million on installing and operating wastewater treatment systems and implementing comprehensive, system-wide upgrades to reduce discharges of pollution from coal mines in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. will significantly reduce illegal discharges of raw sewage overflows into the environment from its wastewater collection system and separate storm sewer system. The agreement represents the largest settlement in the history of the EPA's stratospheric ozone protection program. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a Clean Water Act settlement with Fluid Recovery Services, LLC (FRS), which operates three wastewater treatment plants in western Pennsylvania. The Justice Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Alabama announced on January 24, 2002 a major Clean Water Act settlement involving the Water and Sewer Board of the City of Mobile, AL, for violations of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit program. On April 9, 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced a major Clean Air Act settlement with Alcoa, Inc., under which the company will likely spend over $330 million to install state-of-the-art pollution controls to eliminate the vast majority of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from the power plant at Alcoa's aluminum production facility in Rockdale, Texas. GVEA and AIDEA have agreed to invest approximately $40 million in pollution control technology that will protect public health and resolve potential violations of the CAA. In March and May of 2014, EPA issued unilateral administrative orders to potentially responsible parties to conduct remedial design work associated with cleanup of the Gowanus Canal Superfund Site in Brooklyn, N.Y. Approximately $45 million of the $90 million settlement is going directly to the Gulf in the form of penalties or expedited environmental projects. You can use ECHO to: Search for Facilities Investigate Pollution Sources Search for EPA Enforcement Cases Examine and Create Enforcement-Related Maps Walmart has resolved civil violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). A past cost settlement with Atlantic Richfield to reimburse the EPA for over $21 million of its cleanup costs at the Anaconda Smelter Site and the Warm Springs Ponds Operable Units. The imported product was illegal because the product label differed from the EPA-approved label. The total project costs are expected to be around $10 million. On May 14, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reached an agreement, valued at more than $6.5 million, with 143 de minimis parties that sent between one and three tons of waste for recycling or disposal between 1976 and 1991 to the Omega Chemical Corporation in Whittier, California. Under the terms of a Consent Decree lodged today in federal court to address noncompliance with the Clean Water Act, the City of Bangor, Maine, will take action to prevent sewer overflows and contaminated stormwater from entering the Penobscot River and Kenduskeag Stream. Documents: Consent Decrees and Settlement Agreements | US EPA The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) participated in the settlement. CFPB Takes Action Against ACI Worldwide for Illegally Processing $2.3 SNURs can be used to require notice to EPA before chemical substances and mixtures are used in new ways that might create concerns. United States Attorney David Capp and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that the City of Mishawaka, Indiana has agreed to make an estimated $132.1 million worth of improvements to its combined sewer system to completely eliminate overflows of raw sewage to the St. Joseph River during a typical year of rainfall. Willamette Industries will spend more than $90 million to settle a major environmental suit alleging that it failed to control the amount of air pollution released from its wood product factories in four states, under an agreement reached with the Justice Department and the EPA. (Washington, D.C. - Dec. 21, 2006) Syngenta Seeds, Inc. of Golden Valley, Minn., has agreed to pay a $1.5 million penalty to EPA for selling and distributing seed corn that contained an unregistered genetically engineered pesticide called Bt 10. If EPA has determined that the chemical substance under its conditions of use is not likely to present an unreasonable risk, EPA may still issue a SNUR that follows the determination. Please click here to see any active alerts. Salt Lake County, Utah owns and operates a municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4). Cliffs Burns Harbor (Cleveland-Cliffs) has agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and other laws, for an August 2019 discharge of ammonia and cyanide-laden wastewater into the East Branch of the Little Calumet River. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) entered into a settlement with Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation (Transco), under which the company has agreed to test for and cleanup soil and groundwater contamination related to waste disposal at numerous compressor stations along its natural gas pipeline, which traverses 12 states from Texas to New York. 4822-499) were denied entry/refused delivery. An administrative order on consent (AOC) for recovery of past response costs between EPA and Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, LLC, and Entergy Texas, Inc., was filed with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. (New York, N.Y) Bristol-Myers Squibb, an international pharmaceutical manufacturer, has agreed to reduce the output of ozone-depleting refrigerants at multiple industrial facilities around the country at a combined cost of $3.65 million in order to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. For each list, you can also sort by the column headings. EPA determined that Nufarm Americas, Inc. illegally imported five misbranded pesticide products; Bromoxynil Mixed Ester (EPA Reg. 82633-5). EPA Orders Albuquerque Racetrack to Stop Discharges to Protect Rio Grande. Until June 2017, the EPA's actions to verify compliance with the 2009 Consent Order and new chemicals testing requirements consisted of The settlements cover all 15 U.S. plants owned by Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc., the nations second largest container glass manufacturer, and all 13 U.S. plants owned by the Lafarge Company and two subsidiaries, the nations second largest manufacturer of Portland cement. This database contains the electronic dockets, including decisions, orders and filings, for cases before EPA's Administrative Law Judges. Media inquiries can be sent to TC Energy media relations at media@tcenergy.com. Projected volume of manufacturing and processing of a chemical substance. (WASHINGTON, D.C. January 21, 2010) The United States today filed two major Clean Air Act settlements to reduce air emissions from container glass and Portland cement plants throughout the country, announced Cynthia Giles, Assistant Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, and Ignacia S. Moreno, Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division. TSCA section 5(e) or 5(f) Orders are only binding on the original PMN submitter for that substance. The settlement will safeguard water quality and protect human health by capturing and treating more than 98 percent of wet weather flows entering the combined sewer system, which services the city of Cleveland and 59 adjoining communities. EPA issued a Stop Sale, Use or Removal Order (SSURO) to Nissco America, Inc. for failure to submit a Notice of Arrival form to EPA and for distribution (importation) of 44 drums of misbranded pesticide product (8,800lbs of violative product). The settlement requires the settling defendants to perform approximately $24.9 million worth of work to address 3 million cubic yards of contaminated soil at the North Alcoa Site, Operable Unit 1, in East St. Louis, Ill. W.R. Grace & Co., under its bankruptcy plan of reorganization, paid over $63 million to the U.S. government to resolve claims for environmental cleanups at approximately 39 sites in 21 states, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced. Read theMemorandum of Understanding Between EPA and OSHA, Reviewing New Chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Home. 1331 Ackerman Dr. Devil's Lake, North Dakota 58301. (Washington, D.C. - Nov. 3, 2008) Biofriendly Corp., incorporated in Nevada with principal offices in Covina, Calif., has agreed to pay EPA $1.25 million for manufacturing and selling an unregistered fuel additive in Texas and California. 264-533), Bromoxynil Octanote (EPA Reg. (HollyFrontier), to address alleged Clean Air Act violations resulting from exceedances of emission limits and failure to comply with chemical accident prevention statutory and regulatory safety requirements at its El Dorado, Kansas refinery. This database contains the electronic dockets for administrative matters filed in EPA Regions, including Complaints, Consent Agreements and Final Orders, Expedited Settlement Agreements, and Field Citations. The Corpus Christi Ship Channel flows from Tule Lake into Corpus Christi Bay and then into the Gulf of Mexico. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today that XTO Energy, Inc. (XTO), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the nations largest holder of natural gas reserves, will spend an estimated $3 million to restore eight sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material into streams and wetlands in connection with hydraulic fracturing operations. Cheminova, Inc. agreed to relabel the product and agreed to pay a $5,800 civil penalty to address the alleged distribution of a misbranded pesticide. JavaScript appears to be disabled on this computer. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Justice today announced that Dow Chemical Company (Dow) has agreed to pay a $2.5 million civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) at its chemical manufacturing and research complex in Midland, Mich. Magnolia Valley Planation, LLC, Magnolia Hills, LLC, and Magnolia Valley, LLC own a 50-acre development site located in Evans, Georgia. (Washington, DC - July 23, 2010) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the state of Indiana announced that Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $950,000 and install and upgrade pollution control technology at its two coal-fired power plants in Indiana to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act. Under the settlement, the sulfuric acid unit is scheduled to shut down by April 1, 2010. This category covers Administrative Orders on Consent (AOCs) and other administrative agreements issued by EPA, which are consensual, negotiated agreements pursuant to sections 104, 106(a), 107, and 122 of CERCLA, that obligate parties to perform response activity (e.g., removal, remedial investigation, feasibility study, remedial design) and/or reimburse EPA for costs incurred . WASHINGTON The Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (Metro), at a cost of between $300 million and $400 million, has agreed to make extensive improvements to its sewer systems to eliminate unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and to control overflows of combined sewage and storm water under a settlement announced today by the Justice Department, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Tennessee Attorney Generals Office and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). The Criminal Plea Agreement and Consent Decree call for payment of $17.6 million in fines for failure to manage hazardous wastes in accordance with Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) regulatory requirements.