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…
TL;DR: Federal and state regulators accuse Hanover Foods Corporation of repeatedly dumping polluted wastewater into a small Pennsylvania creek that feeds the Chesapeake Bay. Hanover Foods violated its discharge limits more than 600 times since 2016, allowed brown solids and…
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:EPA enforcement records show that Weakland’s Mechanic Shop in Chest Springs, Pennsylvania, altered pollution-control systems on at least 122 vehicles and sold or installed at least 190 “defeat devices” that undercut federally required emissions controls between January 2019 and July…
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…
TL;DR Naomi Trading Co. Ltd. brought 180 gas-powered chainsaws into the United States that lacked required emissions labels and were tied to an engine certificate covering smaller engines than the ones shipped. Federal inspectors determined the shipment violated the Clean…
TL;DR: Federal EPA regulators concluded that the operator of the Kiefer Landfill in Sacramento County broke clean-air rules across critical safety controls that protect neighbors from toxic landfill gases. The agency secured a six-figure penalty and detailed a series of…
TL;DR: Federal EPA enforcers say Sherwin-Williams stored and handled a temperature-sensitive organic peroxide in ways that predictably led to an overpressure release at its Garland, Texas plant, sending pollution into the air and contaminated runoff into Duck Creek. Sherwin-Williams agreed…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Domestic Gaskets & Its Impact on Drivers and Public Health TL;DR: Federal records show Domestic Gaskets sold 635 “EGR delete” kits designed to disable factory emissions controls on popular diesel trucks, a practice the Clean Air…
TL;DR:Two Rivers Cattle Feeders, a large Missouri livestock operation, was found by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have repeatedly discharged animal waste into a tributary of Salt Creek without a required federal permit. The EPA’s investigation revealed that…