| Chevron Phillips Chemical Co./ Baytown, TX | Airborne emissions of volatile organic compounds, benzene, 1,3-butadiene, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide | 2011-01-10T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $2,000,000 to Baylor College of Medicine for children's environmental health clinic. |
| U. S. EPA; CropLife America, National Cotton Council, other national agribusiness corporations | Triclopyr, Naled, Carfentrazone, glyphosate, diquat dibromide, other aquatic pesticides | 2009-01-07T05:00:00.000Z | Court Judgment: 6th Circuit Court of Appeals declared invalid an EPA rule that would have exempted from the Clean Water Act the spraying of pesticides directly into U.S. navigable waters; the U.S. Supreme Court turned down industry's appeal of this ruling on 02/22/10. |
| Shell Oil Company, Deer Park, Texas | Volatile organic compounds, benzene, 1,3-butadiene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide | 2009-06-16T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $5.8 million penalty (to fund solar energy projects and a program to retrofit old school buses with new clean engines); company must upgrade facility to stop illegal emissions. |
| Pacific Seafood Group, Warrenton, Oregon | Oxygen-depleting wastewater from seafood and surimi processing | 2007-03-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $200,000 penalty (to the Skipanon River Watershed Council); wastewater discharges to river terminated. |
| Bradford Dyeing Association, Inc, Westerly, Rhode Island | Heavy metals, bacteria, airborne discharge of noxious chemicals and particulate matter | 2006-11-01T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $75,000 penalty (to the Bradford Area Environmental Fund) |
| Jasper Wyman & Son, Washington County, Maine | Various toxic pesticides | 2005-04-01T04:00:00.000Z | Company agreed to permanently stop aerial pesticide spraying. |
| Cherryfield Foods, Inc, Washington County, Maine | Various toxic pesticides | 2004-09-01T04:00:00.000Z | Company agreed to permanently stop aerial pesticide spraying. |
| Atlantic Salmon of Maine and Stolt Sea Farm, Inc., Washington and Hancock Counties, Maine | Toxic chemicals and metals, antibiotics, excess feed, animal waste, escaping fish | 2003-08-01T04:00:00.000Z | Judgment upheld on appeal: $100,000 penalty; ban on growing non-native strains of salmon, mandatory fallowing to restore ocean sediments. |
| Wolcottville Sand and Gravel, London Aggregates/ London Township, Michigan | Quarry wastewater discharge | 2003-01-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $595,000 penalty ($520,000 to restoration and preservation projects; $75,000 to U.S. Treasury) |
| U.S. Army, Sierra Army Depot/ Herlong, CA | Airborne discharge of toxic chemicals | 2002-05-01T04:00:00.000Z | Army terminated regular use of open-burning, open-detonation for waste munitions disposal. |
| Morton International/ Reading, Ohio | Toxic organic chemicals, oil and grease | 2001-12-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $260,000 penalty ($70,000 to Mill Creek Restoration Project) |
| P.H. Glatfelter Company/ Spring Grove, PA | Dark brown industrial wastewater discharge | 2001-08-01T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $2,000,000 penalty (to fund Codorus Watershed Endowment) |
| Dow Chemical Company/ Midland, Michigan | Dioxin-contaminated wastes | 2001-07-01T04:00:00.000Z | Dow must remove dioxins, invest in alternative technologies, and educate employees on risks. |
| Bayou Steel Corp./ LaPlace, Louisiana | Airborne discharge of particulate matter, lead and chromium | 1999-07-01T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $350,000 penalty (to fund local health projects); $1,350,000 in environmental upgrades. |
| U.S. Army/ Monterey, California | Unexploded munitions (bombs, rockets, etc) on and in ground | 1998-10-01T04:00:00.000Z | Army abandoned defense of suit and agreed to precedent-setting cleanup under federal Superfund law |
| Laidlaw Environmental Services/ Hilliard, OH | Lead, copper, and other toxic metals | 1997-12-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $750,000 penalty ($200,000 to the Scioto River Steward Program) |
| Dow Chemical Company/ Midland, MI | Phosphorus, pesticide chemicals | 1997-12-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $1,000,000 penalty ($800,000 to environmental projects) |
| New Haven Foundry/ Macomb, MI | Zinc, ammonia, dissolved oxygen | 1997-06-01T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $460,000 penalty |
| PMC Inc./ Chicago, IL | Cyanide, benzene, lead, toluene | 1995-11-01T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $1,645,000 penalty |
| Reynolds Metals CO./ Longview, WA | Aluminum, suspended solids, cyanide, pH, benzopyrene | 1995-03-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $100,000 penalty (to University of Washington for research on Columbia River salmon) |
| Shell Oil/ Martinez, CA | Selenium, cyanide | 1995-03-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $2,200,000 penalty (funds environmental research, restoration, and education projects in the Bay Area) |
| U.S. Dept. of Defense (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard)/ Bremerton, WA | Temperature, oil and grease, spills of sewage and toxic chemicals | 1994-12-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: Consent decree requiring extensive upgrades |
| General Electric/ Evandale, OH | Heavy metals, oils and grease | 1993-12-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $775,000 penalty ($435,000 to environmental programs) |
| General Electric/ Lynn, MA | Petroleum-based oil and grease | 1993-10-01T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $1,009,000 penalty ($825,000 to Saugus River Watershed Council, $100,000 to National Park Service) |
| Witco Chemical Corp./ Perth Amboy, NJ | Suspended solids, oil and grease, PCBs, zinc, surfactants | 1993-02-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $10,000,000 penalty |
| Kraft General Foods/ Woburn, MA | Fats, oil and grease released into Boston Harbor | 1992-10-01T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $250,000 penalty ($100,000 to harbor cleanup) |
| GAF Corporation/ Wayne, NJ | Toxic discharges, ammonia, residual chlorine | 1992-07-01T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $550,000 penalty ($495,000 to Cook College for research in Passaic River watershed) |
| ICI Americas Inc./ Dighton, MA | Toxics and conventional pollutants, toxicity and ammonia | 1992-05-01T04:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $700,000 penalty ($600,000 to local environmental projects) |
| Mueller Brass Co./ Port Huron, MI | Zinc, copper, discharging without a permit into Black River | 1992-02-01T05:00:00.000Z | Settlement: $2,000,000 penalty ($1,000,000 for local environmental projects) |
