According to a December 22, 2023 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compliance order, Virginia Truck Parts, Inc. repeatedly failed to control, monitor, and properly permit polluted stormwater discharges from its automobile salvage facility in King George, Virginia. The EPA documented…
According to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Vale Wood Farms repeatedly discharged wastewater from its dairy processing facility with pollutant levels above its permit limits and failed to report all sampling results as required under the Clean Water Act.…
Circle Oak East, LLC used heavy machinery to dump soil and crushed rock into roughly 20 acres of federally protected wetlands and about 100 feet of Shoals Creek in rural Georgia to build a private impoundment, all without the required…
A fuel truck operated by K & V Transport, Inc. overturned in Hancock, Michigan, and released about 6,500 gallons of gasoline/ethanol mix and diesel fuel into a public highway, stormwater system, popular beaches, and the Portage Ship Canal (where I…
TL;DR: A Contitech manufacturing plant in Lincoln, Nebraska released about 125 gallons of hydraulic oil into a drainage system that flows to a tributary of Salt Creek. The spill produced a yellow sheen on the water and shorelines. This is…
EPA Orders Kickapoo Tribe to Fix Wastewater Violations on Kansas Reservation Corporate Misconduct Accountability Project Kickapoo Tribe of Indians of the Kickapoo Reservation in Kansas · Administrative Order for Compliance on Consent EPA Orders Kickapoo Tribe to Fix Wastewater Violations…
TL;DR:The Broadway Group, LLC, a development firm based in Alabama, unlawfully filled more than an acre of federally protected wetlands to build a new retail Dollar General store, without obtaining the required Clean Water Act permit. The EPA found that…
Idaho Sawmill Polluted River for Years, Paid Tiny Fine, Admitted Nothing Corporate Misconduct Accountability Project Tamarack Mill, LLC · EPA Administrative Consent Agreement and Final Order Idaho Sawmill Polluted River for Years, Paid Tiny Fine, Admitted Nothing Tamarack Mill illegally…
How Over 112,000 Gallons of Oil Sat Unprotected by a Kansas Waterway An oil production company operated two facilities in Kansas with a combined storage capacity of over 112,000 gallons of oil and produced water without the legally required safety…
A River of Excuses West Virginia has some rivers. The ones relevant to this story are the Elk, the Kanawha, the Pocatalico. Picture the water slipping over ancient stones, the glint of sunlight on the surface. These are the places…