TL;DRAccording to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrative Order for Compliance on Consent, the City of Eagle Butte, as owner and operator of its wastewater treatment facility on the Cheyenne River Reservation, failed to comply with core Clean Water…
TL;DR In a frustratingly common example of industrial negligence, Maher Cattle Company, LLC, alongside owners Patrick and James Maher, operated a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) on the Standing Rock Reservation without the necessary National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)…
TL;DR: In Greeley, Colorado, Andersen’s Sales & Salvage, Inc. (AS&S) operated a scrap recycling facility that systematically ignored federal regulations designed to protect the Earth’s ozone layer. According to the EPA, the polluting corporation accepted small appliances (like refrigerators and…
TLDR The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has alleged that Powers Paint Shop, Inc., a metal finishing facility in Woodstock, Illinois, operated for nearly four decades in the shadows of federal oversight. By failing to submit required baseline monitoring reports…
TL;DR According to the EPA, Wehrli Custom Fabrication, Inc. prioritized private profit over our air quality of the general public by manufacturing, selling, and installing nearly 1,500 “defeat devices.” These components were designed specifically to bypass federal emission controls on…
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…
TL;DR: According to a 2024 Consent Agreement and Final Order with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), American Iron and Metal (AIM) allegedly failed to ensure proper recovery of refrigerants from vehicles and small appliances at its Colorado Springs scrap…
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.…
TL;DR:According to a consent agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Big Toms Pest Control LLC illegally dumped significant quantities of pesticide products (explicitly labeled as toxic) near rural Utah water infrastructure, including city water storage tanks and a…
TL;DR:Federal environmental regulators say Kentucky-based Thoroughbred Performance Products, Inc., doing business as Thoroughbred Diesel, sold and offered more than 15,000 “defeat devices” that shut off pollution controls on diesel trucks across the United States. These parts were designed to remove…