Environmental violations include the improper disposal of waste, emissions of toxic substances, and illegal exploitation of natural resources. These practices can lead to significant environmental damage, including pollution of air and water, destruction of habitats, and loss of biodiversity. The repercussions are long-lasting, affecting the health of local communities, reducing the quality of natural resources, and contributing to global environmental crises like climate change.
TL;DR JSA Motorsports LLC, operating as Alaska House of Yamaha in Big Lake, Alaska, ran an illegal underground injection well that pumped motor vehicle waste, including potential benzene, lead, cadmium, and chromium, directly into an aquifer used as a drinking…
TL;DR A Puerto Rico real estate developer and its contractor built a luxury residential project in Rincón, Puerto Rico, directly next to a creek and the Caribbean Sea, and let construction runoff pour into both without the required federal pollution…
TL;DR General Partitions Manufacturing Corp., an Erie, PA metal factory, processed more than 25,000 pounds each of chromium and nickel every single year from 2020 to 2022 and told absolutely nobody about it. Federal law requires factories to report toxic…
TL;DR The Pollution: Since at least 2020, Dragon Springs Buddhist, Inc. has been discharging wastewater and stormwater containing fecal coliform bacteria into the Basher Kill and Neversink River in Deerpark, New York, in quantities that reached over 12 times the…
TL;DR R.H. Capital-Beets, LLC stored up to 112,770 gallons of oil and produced water across two Kansas oil production sites with zero spill prevention plans in place. One of those sites sits just 70 feet from Hickory Creek, a waterway…
TL;DR On February 15, 2022, a KMT Enterprises truck driver sat inside his cab and did nothing while 10,000 gallons of heating oil overflowed for at least seven minutes at a facility in Putnam, Connecticut, soaking the soil and poisoning…
In Pasadena, Texas, along Underwood Road, sits a facility that cleans the guts of our supply chain—the massive cargo tanks that haul chemicals across the country. It’s a dirty, necessary job. But for an unknown amount of time, the air…
TL;DR A chemical fire at MPG Industries’ facility in Joliet, Illinois contaminated approximately 3 acres of land, including farmland, and forced a federal Superfund designation. The EPA spent taxpayer money cleaning up the mess, then sued MPG Industries, Millridge Industries,…
The Threat Beneath the Streets This here was a story that unfolded in silence, deep beneath the pavement of a Baltimore neighborhood. At the Brody Trucking Co., Inc. facility in Baltimore, two massive tanks lie buried in the earth. One…
Environmental Crime Report West Virginia • August 2025 • Clean Water Act Enforcement Concrete in the River Claxton Smith Concrete Company dumped chemicals into West Virginia’s rivers from three separate facilities for years. The EPA fined them $55,000 (about what…