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…
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…
TL;DR Grove Farm Company, Inc., a major Kauai land developer, operated at least seven large-capacity cesspools across three commercial properties for roughly 20 years after federal law required them to be closed by April 5, 2005. These open-bottomed pits dumped…
TL;DR A property company in Hilo, Hawai’i dumped raw, untreated sewage directly into the ground for over 19 years without a federal permit. The company, 1284 Kilauea K&M, LLC, operated an illegal underground injection well the entire time, violating the…
TL;DR Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad LLC illegally dumped fill material, including organic soils, gravel, rocks, and wood chips, directly into protected wetlands and tributaries in Clark County, Washington, starting in September 2023. The dumping fed directly into Chelatchie Creek, Cedar…
TL;DR Two Reno-area real estate development companies, Nevada Tri Partners, LLC and Damonte Ranch Commerce Center, LLC, violated the federal Clean Water Act by unlawfully impacting a protected waterway. The U.S. EPA finalized a penalty of just $25,971 (roughly what…
Environmental Crime & Corporate Accountability The Price of Water Pollution? For Cybertech Inc., It Was Only $1,000 Published based on: U.S. EPA Docket No. CWA-03-2025-0071 | Filed: May 15, 2025 | Jurisdiction: EPA Region 3, Philadelphia, PA TL;DR WHO: Cybertech,…
EvilCorporations.com • Energy Sector • Environmental Compliance Consumers Energy Falsified Underground Injection Records Protecting Michigan Drinking Water EvilCorporations.com • Docket No. SDWA-05-2024-0003 • 22 min read TL;DR Consumers Energy Company, the Michigan utility giant, submitted five inaccurate monitoring reports to…
EPA Enforcement Action 46,000 Gallons, Zero Plan EvilCorporations.com • CWA-04-2024-1103(b) | Memphis, TN • 13 min read TL;DR A Memphis, Tennessee oil storage facility called Agrileum Collections, located at 3901 Outland Road, was storing up to 46,250 gallons of oil…
TL;DR The Corporation: Swift Beef Company, a massive meat processing plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, which processes around 4,500 cattle per day. The Crime: For at least five years, from 2018 to 2023, the company repeatedly violated its Clean Water…