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June 7, 2018

A prime contractor joint venture between AECOM, Bechtel, and CH2M Hill, Washington Closure Hanford, LLC, performing environmental clean-up at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site, has agreed to pay $3.2 million to settle a case first brought by whistleblowers under the False Claims Act.  The case alleged that defendant awarded subcontracts reserved for small disadvantaged business to a company that purported to be eligible for such contracts but was in fact a pass-through front company for a larger entity.  The whistleblowers will receive $643,000 as a result of the settlement.  ED WA

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud, FCA Federal, Government Procurement Fraud, Whistleblower Case, Whistleblower Rewards,

May 24, 2018

Two Honolulu-based fishing companies, their managers, and vessel operators, agreed to pay collective penalties of more than $42,000 to settle claims related to the discharge of oily waste into ocean waters from two commercial fishing vessels; the companies and individuals also agreed to implement operational improvements and other compliance measures. USAO DHI

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud, Ocean Dumping,

May 10, 2018

Japanese shipping company Nitta Kisen Kaisha Ltd. was convicted and sentenced for falsification of an Oil Record Book to cover-up intentional oil pollution from the Motor Vessel Atlantic Oasis. The company was ordered to pay a fine of $1 million. DOJ

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud, Ocean Dumping,

May 7, 2018

Massachusetts-based Challenge Fisheries LLC and Quinn Fisheries Inc. agreed to pay $414,000 in civil penalties to resolve federal Clean Water Act claims stemming from oily bilge discharges in New Bedford Harbor, Massachusetts. DOJ

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud,

April 2, 2018

$130,752 to settle allegations that two companies, Sanders Oil & Gas, LLC and Sanco Operating Company agreed to pay roughly $130,000 to settle claims it violated the False Claims Act by failing to pay money owed to the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue for natural gas produced from a federal lease located in New Mexico. DOJ (CO)

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud, FCA Federal,

March 12, 2018

Placer Mining Company, Inc. agreed to pay up to $20 million to resolve the company's cleanup liability in Idaho’s northern panhandle. The settlement enables the return to production of Bunker Hill Mine after a hiatus of more than two decades. DOJ

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud,

February 27, 2018

Tyson Poultry Inc. was sentenced to pay a $2 million criminal fine and $500,000 to directly remedy harm caused when it violated the Clean Water Act stemming from discharges at Tyson’s slaughter and processing facility in Monett, Missouri that led to a major fish kill event. DOJ

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud,

February 12, 2018

Shell Chemical LP entered into a settlement that each year will eliminate more than 150 tons of excess emissions of harmful air pollutants from Shell’s chemical plant located in Norco, Louisiana, in St. Charles Parish. The settlement resolves allegations that Shell violated the Clean Air Act and Louisiana State law and will require Shell to spend approximately $10 million to install and operate air pollution control and monitoring technology to reduce harmful air pollution from four industrial flares at the Norco plant. DOJ

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud,

January 25, 2018

SunCoke Energy Inc., its subsidiary Indiana Harbor Coke Company, and Cokenergy have agreed to spend $250,000 in abatement costs and pay a $5 million civil penalty to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations relating to excess emissions of coke oven gases from their coke plant in East Chicago, Indiana. DOJ

Tagged in: Environmental Fraud,

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