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.
Environmental Misconduct • Clean Water Act • Elmore County, Alabama How Elmore’s Gravel Giant Drowned 1,665 Acres of Alabama’s Wetlands EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 2:25-cv-60, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama • 37 min read TL;DR Elmore Sand &…
EPA Enforcement • Clean Air Act Violation • Covington, Kentucky Taylor Farms Left 27,300 Pounds of Toxic Gas One Alarm Failure Away From a Community Disaster EvilCorporations.com • Docket No. CAA-04-2024-0310(b) • 19 min read TL;DR Taylor Farms Tennessee, Inc.…
Environmental Crime / Government Contractor Fraud The “Green Contractor” That Buried Radioactive Waste and Billed the Navy for It Tetra Tech EC was paid to clean up one of America’s most contaminated nuclear sites. Federal prosecutors say they dumped radioactive…
TL;DR FACTS: A group of corporations and the U.S. Department of Energy agreed to a $2.1 million settlement for releasing hazardous substances into the Shpack Landfill site in Attleboro and Norton, Massachusetts, causing “Natural Resource Damages.” MISCONDUCT: The settlement explicitly…
EvilCorporations.com • Civil Action No. 83-cv-1419-LJM-MJD • 19 min read Forty Years of Poisoned Ground A Superfund site outside Indianapolis has been leaking hazardous chemicals into the earth since before some of its victims were born. Approximately 235 corporations agreed…
EPA Enforcement Action • Safe Drinking Water Act • Indiana Shell Pumped Industrial Waste Underground Near Your Drinking Water — For Years, Nobody Noticed EvilCorporations.com • Docket No. SDWA-05-2024-0004 • 33 min read TL;DR Shell Catalysts & Technologies LP operates…
Docket No. CWA-08-2024-0022 • EPA Region 8 • Wind River Reservation, WY Raw Sewage Into Sacred Water: How Northern Arapaho Utilities Failed the Wind River Reservation for Years EvilCorporations.com • CWA-08-2024-0022 / EPA Region 8 / Beaver Creek Lagoon Facility…
EPA Region 8 • Administrative Order • Docket No. SDWA-08-2024-0044 Your HOA Runs Your Water. It Broke Every Rule That Protects You. EvilCorporations.com • Teton County, Wyoming • 10 min read TL;DR Rafter J Ranch Homeowner’s Association in Teton County,…
Environmental Enforcement It’s Always Polluted in Philadelphia EvilCorporations.com • RCRA-03-2024-0124 • 20 min read A Philadelphia car wash sat on top of 28,000 gallons of underground fuel for years. Its alarms screamed. No one investigated. The EPA finally showed up…
Lead Poisoning for Profit Verizon, AT&T, and others sued for abandoning a toxic network of lead-sheathed cables across New York. TL;DR: THE POISONED NETWORK The Facts: The Town of Wappinger, NY filed a class-action lawsuit (Index No. 160566/2024) against a…