TL;DR Guida-Seibert Dairy Company in New Britain, CT stored over 11,000 pounds of toxic anhydrous ammonia — enough to kill or seriously injure people for blocks around — while running a facility riddled with safety violations for years. EPA inspectors…
Investigated Chemical Safety Environmental Justice Lineage Logistics Thinks Ammonia Safety Is Optional EvilCorporations.com | Cold Storage. Hot Violations. | Dec. 11, 2025 TL;DR Lineage Logistics LLC, the world’s largest cold-storage company, was cited by the U.S. EPA for violating the…
TL;DR On July 1, 2023, Simmons Prepared Foods released 1,600 pounds of toxic anhydrous ammonia at its Van Buren, Arkansas chicken processing plant, injuring three workers. The EPA found that Simmons failed to use a robust lock-out/tag-out safety mechanism —…
TL;DR A seafood processing company in Gloucester, Massachusetts stored over 8,600 pounds of anhydrous ammonia — a gas that can kill you in minutes — inside a building a quarter-mile from an elementary school, and left safety systems broken, mislabeled,…
$2,400 Fine.Billions in Revenue.Toxic Gas. No Audit. CHS Inc. • Craigmont, Idaho • Clean Air Act Violation • EPA Settlement 2025 TL;DR The Facts CHS Inc., one of the largest agricultural cooperatives in America, stored dangerous quantities of anhydrous ammonia…
TL;DR A private cold storage company in Vineland, New Jersey let its facility rot into a toxic time bomb, packed with nearly 5 tons of flammable, poisonous ammonia gas, then went bankrupt and left the $981,871.27 (enough to fully fund…
A $10,000 Slap on the Wrist for a Company Moving 110 Million Pounds of Chicken a Year EvilCorporations.com | Investigative Report | Source: EPA Region 6 Administrative Order on Consent, July 2024 TL;DR On July 1, 2023, a Simmons Prepared…
Environmental Accountability ‧ Clean Air Act Violations ‧ Guide Rock, Nebraska Ely’s Inc. Forgot That We Live In a Society A small-town fertilizer company stored over 10,000 pounds of one of the most dangerous chemicals on earth with zero emergency…
EPA Region 9 Enforcement Action · Clean Air Act Section 112(r) · Stockton, California CALAMCO: A California Cooperative Gambled With Public Health And Lost A federally regulated agricultural cooperative in Stockton, California broke the Clean Air Act’s toxic chemical safety…
DOCKET NO. CAA-04-2025-0300(b) EPA REGION 4 CLEAN AIR ACT Knoxville, Tennessee — Filed May 14, 2025 How Custom Foods of America Prioritized Profit Over Public Safety & Employee Lives 39,000 Pounds of Anhydrous Ammonia. Corroded Pipes. No Safety Shower…