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Recent Additions
October 2008: George H. Johnson Clean Water Act Settlement - An Arizona land developer and a contractor have agreed to settle alleged violations of the Clean Water Act for bulldozing, filling, and diverting approximately five miles of the Santa Cruz River, a major waterway in Arizona.
October 2008: Merit Energy and Shell Exploration Clean Air Act Settlement - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced an agreement with Merit Energy Co. LLC and Shell Exploration & Production Co. on alleged Clean Air Act violations at a natural gas processing facility in Manistee, Mich. Merit is the present owner and Shell is the former owner of the plant.
September 2008: Compliance Assistance Results - A brief annual fact sheet about the Agency's compliance assistance activities and results.
September 2008: Fuel Waiver: Multistate - On September 11, EPA issued an emergency waiver through September 15 of the Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) and ethanol requirements for gasoline in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, and of the RVP, ethanol and reformulated gasoline requirements for Texas through September 30.
September 2008: Fuel Waiver: Tennessee - On September 11, EPA issued an emergency waiver through September 15, of the Reid Vapor Pressure and ethanol requirements for gasoline in certain counties in Tennessee.
Latest Headlines
November 2008: Plantation Pipe Line will pay penalty for fuel spills in Va., N.C., Ga. - Plantation Pipe Line Company, Alpharetta, Ga., has agreed to pay a civil penalty and implement safeguards in order to resolve a Clean Water Act lawsuit over fuel pipeline spills in three states, EPA, the Justice Department and the state of North Carolina announced. The company has agreed to pay a $725,000 penalty for discharges of jet fuel and gasoline in Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina, and for inadequate spill prevention safeguards at a Virginia facility. It also has agreed to implement $1.3 million in new spill prevention safeguards.
November 2008: Bacardi agrees to purchase and protect sensitive land and pay fine to settle EPA water pollution case - EPA and the Bacardi Corporation have reached an agreement that spells out the resolution of Clean Water Act violations at Bacardi’s rum manufacturing facility in Cataño, Puerto Rico. Under the agreement, a consent decree approved by the U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico, Bacardi has paid a $550,000 penalty, and will donate and preserve land valued at $1 million.
November 2008: Hershey Creamery Co. pleads guilty and is fined $100,000 for clean air violations - Hershey Creamery Company, an ice cream manufacturer and distributor headquartered in Harrisburg, Pa., pled guilty on Nov. 3 to a Clean Air Act felony involving its failure to develop and implement a risk management program at two of its facilities in Pennsylvania. The company was sentenced to pay a $100,000 fine and was placed on one year of probation. The company had twice certified to EPA that it had developed a risk management plan. It is the first CAA prosecution involving RMPs in the country.