TL;DR:Federal EPA inspectors found Dover Chemical Corporation storing hazardous waste in unsecured, unlabeled, and aging containers at its Dover, Ohio plant. Some drums sat outside labs where any employee could reach them. One drum of hazardous waste stood open when…
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 enforcement records show that Apex Diesel Performance, a small diesel repair shop in Atlantic, Pennsylvania, turned the illegal removal and defeat of truck pollution controls into a regular line of business. From January 2021 through late 2022, the…
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: Federal inspectors found extensive corrosion and improvised supports on pipes carrying hundreds of thousands of pounds of chlorine and sulfur dioxide at a DPC Enterprises gas repackaging plant in Mobile, Alabama. They documented chlorine lines held up by fabric…
TL;DR:Federal environmental records from the EPA show that Lincoln Industries ran a high-volume metal finishing plant in Lincoln, Nebraska while mishandling hazardous waste in basic, repeatable ways. Inspectors found open, unlabeled, undated containers of hazardous waste across production lines, hazardous…
TL;DR: Federal EPA inspectors allege Apple mishandled hazardous waste at its Santa Clara facility… mislabeling and mismanaging corrosive and ignitable chemicals, venting solvent tank exhaust to open air, skipping daily tank checks, and shipping waste 105 times without required land-disposal…
TL;DR: Federal EPA inspectors documented basic safety failures at a chlorine and sulfur dioxide facility in Torrance, California: corroded equipment, unlabeled and unsupported piping, unchocked one-ton gas containers, mismatched procedures on the platform, a contradictory emergency plan, and a non-operational…
Federal EPA regulators documented a pattern of oil-spill prevention failures at Shoreside Petroleum’s fuel terminal in Seward, Alaska. The company operated with inadequate secondary containment, incomplete engineering certifications, missing integrity tests, and unverifiable emergency equipment. The facility sits a short…