Environmental Fraud
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Massachusetts Fishing Company to Pay for Oil Pollution Discharges
Posted 05/8/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
Massachusetts-based Challenge Fisheries and Quinn Fisheries agreed to pay $414,000 in civil penalties and perform fleet-wide improvements to resolve charges of violating the Clean Water Act stemming from fuel oil discharges in New Bedford Harbor and coastal waters off of southeastern New England. See DOJ Press Release.
According to the government, the company was responsible...
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)March 29, 2018
Dow Chemical Company agreed to pay $479,000 to settle allegations that former Dow subsidiary Poly-Carb, Inc. violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent materials certifications related to a federally-funded highway resurfacing project. DOJ (SC)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. DOJFebruary 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. DOJFebruary 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. DOJJanuary 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. DOJWhistleblower Alleges Facebook Aided Wildlife Trafficking
Posted 04/12/18
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team
According to a whistleblower, Facebook profited from the trafficking of endangered species and failed to stop criminal activity linking it to the illegal wildlife trade that allegedly took place on its platform. Facebook was displaying ads tied to unnamed “American corporations” on pages linked to traffickers known to trade in elephant ivory, rhino horn, bear claws, and tiger...
Loose Lips Save Ships
Posted 03/6/18
The Maritime Executive (March 6, 2018). Click here to read the article.