Northwest European Autoworks settled federal Clean Air Act allegations without admitting it did anything wrong, and without a court ever reviewing whether the penalty was fair. TL;DR The EPA found that Northwest European Autoworks, an auto shop in Bellingham, Washington,…
TL;DR South Bow (USA) LP (formerly TransCanada Keystone Pipeline LP) discharged at least 543,354 gallons of toxic diluted bitumen into Mill Creek, Kansas, on December 7, 2022. The rupture occurred 90 feet from Mill Creek in Washington County, sending an…
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…
Daniel’s Farm Store EPA Penalty: 56 Unlabeled Wood Heaters Sold in Pennsylvania | EvilCorporations.com TL;DR Daniel’s Farm Store, a Pennsylvania retailer, sold 56 wood heaters from August 2020 through June 2024 without the federally required emissions compliance labels. The heaters,…
TL;DR Denton Scrap Metal Recycling LLC contaminated the Upper Choptank River with toxic metals for six years (2018-2023), violating the Clean Water Act 54 separate times. Pollutants included copper, zinc, aluminum, iron, and chemical oxygen demand, all measured at levels…
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…
Concrete Supply Company Violation TL;DR Concrete Supply Company, LLC operated its Lincolnton, NC plant without an updated Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan for over a decade. The facility discharged untreated concrete washout wastewater into the South Fork Catawba River while falsely…
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 Rockies Express Pipeline, LLC $36,777 for a Clean Air Act violation at its Columbus Compressor Station in Ashville, Ohio. A compressor seal started leaking methane and volatile organic compounds on January 5, 2022. Federal rules gave…