TLDR FGF Brands Inc. operated its Brownsburg, Indiana bakery with systemic disregard for hazardous chemical safety standards, leading to a dangerous ammonia release in August 2022 that forced a facility-wide evacuation. Federal investigators discovered that FGF ignored its own internal…
TLDR: Crystal Mountain Inc. repeatedly bypassed federal safety mandates designed to protect its drinking water system from natural disasters and intentional attacks. Serving over 4,200 people in Enumclaw, Washington, the missed critical deadlines to assess infrastructure risks and ignored a…
TL;DRFederal regulators found that Croda Inc.’s Atlas Point facility in New Castle, Delaware repeatedly mishandled hazardous waste. Inspectors documented unlabeled and improperly dated chemical containers, missing emergency response plans, skipped safety inspections over multiple years, and unknown chemicals stored without…
TLDR Alter Trading Corporation, operating as Alter Metal Recycling, allowed oil, industrial debris, and sediment to leak from its scrap yards into vital Midwestern waterways. Inspections at facilities in Columbus, Nebraska, and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, revealed a systemic failure to…
TLDR Biosearch Technologies, Inc. operated its Petaluma manufacturing facility with a systemic disregard for hazardous waste laws, leading to dangerous chemical stockpiling and unmonitored air pollution. Federal investigators discovered that the company failed to identify toxic solvents, left containers of…
TL;DR: TPDA Trade Corp. imported 82 engines and power tools (including diesel engines and leaf blowers) that completely lacked required federal environmental certifications. These “uncertified” engines are unethical and illegal because they bypass the smog and emission standards designed to…
Sanity System NA LLC, a Florida-based company, distributed portable ozone generators with broad, unverified claims about eliminating viruses, bacteria, and fungi. Federal inspectors found these devices, marketed for use in ambulances and cars, lacked required EPA tracking numbers and bore…
TL;DR: In April 2024, Sasol Chemicals USA, LLC settled with the EPA for over $1.4 million following a series of alarming safety failures at their Westlake, Louisiana facility. The corporate misconduct culminated in a massive 2022 chemical fire involving over…
TL;DR: For years, K2 Pure Solutions Nocal, L.P., a chemical manufacturer in Pittsburg, California, operated with a staggering disregard for basic safety protocols mandated by the Clean Air Act. From failing to report accidental releases of hazardous substances to ignoring…
TL;DR: In yet another infuriating example of regulatory negligence, Trinity Sterile, Inc., a medical sterilization company based in Salisbury, Maryland, failed to timely report its usage of over 20,000 pounds of ethylene oxide (a potent carcinogen by the way) to…