Posts tagged clean water act

Hardrock Excavating LLC has been fined $75,000 for violating the Clean Water Act by dumping oilfield waste into a tributary of the Mahoning River in 2012 and 2013.

Duke Energy was fined $102 million last week for polluting four major rivers with toxic coal ash over a number of years.

ExxonMobil has agreed a $5 million settlement over a crude oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas, in March 2013.

Egg producer Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. has entered into a settlement that resolves alleged violations of the Clean Water Act at the company’s poultry egg production facility in Edwards, Mississippi.

XTO Energy, Inc., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $2.3 million for violations of the Clean Water Act at its hydraulic fracturing sites in West Virginia.

A poultry slaughterhouse in New York has admitted disposing of chicken parts and other waste in storm drains and sewers.

A waste treatment firm based in Warren, Pennsylvania, has agreed to build a new wastewater treatment facility to settle a federal lawsuit brought by environmental organization Clean Water Action.

More than four years after it happened, the Macondo well incident in the Gulf of Mexico continues to capture the attention of the industry and the public.

Between 2009 and 2012 Idaho Milk Products released wastewater from its facility into the city’s sewer system, with acidity levels of the wastewater more than 130 times higher than the company was allowed to discharge.

Oklahoma-based refiner Citgo Petroleum Corp. may face a $197 million fine for the 2006 oil spill at its refinery in Lake Charles, La.