Environmental enforcement A federal complaint says Pilgrim Foods’ own monitoring identified unauthorized pollutant discharges on 1,728 days. Decades of warnings, consent decrees and required monitoring allegedly failed to stop acidic water from reaching a stream and the Souhegan River. August…
Environmental Enforcement The Environmental Protection Agency said a Bellingham auto recycler stored enough used oil, gasoline and diesel to require a spill-prevention plan. EPA Region 10 filing · August 12, 2026 · Docket CWA-10-2026-0233 Clean Water Act TL;DR The EPA…
EPA Enforcement • Oil-Spill Planning A signed consent agreement calls for the Seaside, Oregon petroleum distributor to pay over an alleged failure to prepare and implement a required spill-control plan. EPA Region 10 • Docket CWA-10-2025-0023 • Seaside, Oregon Clean…
Environmental enforcement Inside the EPA’s $98,000 Jefferson Road Stormwater Case Against Kokosing Federal and state inspectors cited damaged sediment controls, exposed slopes, concrete outside a washout and an unstabilized area beside Davis Creek. Kokosing signed a proposed settlement without admitting…
TL;DR Duran Construction spent over 12 years dumping fill material into protected Alaska wetlands without federal permits, destroying three major ecosystems near Juneau. The company received violation notices in 2002, 2010, 2019, and 2020 and continued illegal operations anyway, excavating…
Tricor Industrial Poisoned Killbuck Creek for Three Years | EvilCorporations.com TL;DR Tricor Industrial, a metal fabrication facility in Wooster, Ohio, violated its Clean Water Act permit 26 times between January 2019 and September 2021. The company dumped aluminum, total suspended…
Terminal Ready-Mix Black River Pollution Case 2026 TL;DR Terminal Ready-Mix, Inc., a concrete plant in Lorain, Ohio, discharged sand, sediment, and gravel into the Black River for three years (April 2021 – July 2024) in violation of its Clean Water…
TL;DR Enterprise Precast Concrete of Kansas, LLC, a hydraulic cement plant on the bank of the Kansas River in Kansas City, Kansas, signed a federal settlement with EPA Region 7 covering seven separate counts of Clean Water Act violations. The…
TL;DR The EPA fined Concrete Supply Company, LLC, a Charlotte, North Carolina ready-mix concrete facility, $43,000 after finding it discharged polluted stormwater into Kings Branch in violation of its Clean Water Act permit. EPA inspectors found the facility’s Stormwater Pollution…
Environmental Accountability EvilCorporations.com • EPA Docket No. CWA-03-2026-0030 • Estimated Reading Time: 6.9 minutes TL;DR Joy Recycling LLC ran three scrap and auto-recycling facilities in West Virginia for years without the required stormwater pollution permits, allowing industrial runoff to drain…