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February 26, 2016

Illinois filed a lawsuit against a Delaware coal company, the American Coal Company, for a coal slurry release near an Illinois mine that resulted in the relocation of at least one resident. The complaint alleges that an injection well located around the village of Raleigh, was leaking unknown quantities of coal slurry, a byproduct of coal preparation. The complaint further alleges the slurry flowed into the nearby Bethel Creek and contaminated soil and groundwater, resulting in at least one resident having to be relocated. IL

2015's Whistleblower Of The Year Award Goes To . . . Perdue Chicken Farmer Craig Watts

Posted  02/9/16
By the C|C Whistleblower Lawyer Team Well the votes are in and tallied and Whistleblower Insider's 2015 Whistleblower of the Year winner is Perdue chicken farmer Craig Watts.  He is one of the 30,000 contract farmers in the U.S. who work with the handful of Big-Ag poultry producers, like Perdue Farms, that control what goes into the vast majority of chickens we eat.  They also dictate how these chickens are...

July 16, 2014

The SEC charged Natural Blue Resources Inc. with concealing from investors that two lawbreakers actually ran the company.  According to the SEC, the company was to create, acquire, or otherwise invest in environmentally-friendly companies.  What investors didn’t know was that two individuals with prior fraud violations — James E. Cohen and Joseph Corazzi — secretly controlled the operational and management decisions of Natural Blue while calling themselves outside “consultants.”  SEC

January 8, 2016

Joseph Furando was sentenced to 20 years in prison and to pay more than $56 million in restitution for his role in a scheme to fraudulently sell biodiesel incentives.  Furando admitted he and his companies, New Jersey-based Caravan Trading Company and CIMA Green, supplied Indiana-based E‑biofuels with biodiesel that was actually made by other companies and had already been used to claim government tax credits.  Furando realized his profits through the prices he charged E‑biofuels.  Over the course of approximately two years, the defendants fraudulently sold more than 35 million gallons of fuel for a total cost of over $145.5 million.  The defendants realized more than $55 million in gross profits, at the expense of their customers and U.S. taxpayers.  DOJ

December 22, 2015

Chem-Solv Inc. (formerly known as Chemicals & Solvents Inc.) pleaded guilty to illegally storing hazardous waste at its facility in Roanoke, Virginia, and to illegally transporting hazardous waste from that facility to another location.  As a part of the plea agreement, Chem-Solv has agreed to pay a $1 million criminal fine, an additional $250,000 to fund environmental community service projects and another $250,000 to the Environmental Protection Agency to settle related civil proceedings. DOJ

December 3, 2015

The General Electric Company agreed to pay a $2.25 million civil penalty to resolve a complaint alleging violations of federal and state environmental laws in connection with GE’s use of an incinerator at a manufacturing facility it once owned and operated in Waterford, New York.  DOJ

November 24, 2015

Certified Environmental Services, Inc. was sentenced to 5 years of probation, and to make restitution in the amount of roughly $410,000 for negligently releasing asbestos into the ambient air, thereby placing other persons in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury.  DOJ (NDNY)

October 28, 2015

Tri-Marine Management Co., Tri-Marine Fishing Management and Cape Mendocino Fishing agreed to pay $1.05 million in civil penalties and to perform fleet-wide inspections and other corrective measures to resolve claims stemming from an October 2014 oil spill in American Samoa and related violations of spill prevention regulations.  According to the government, the Tri-Marine companies are liable for the October 2014 oil spill from their 230-foot commercial tuna fishing vessel, the Capt. Vincent Gann, into Pago Pago Harbor in American Samoa and related violations of the Coast Guard’s spill prevention regulations.  DOJ

October 22, 2015

Virginia-based hardwood flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators Inc. pleaded guilty to violating the Lacey Act through its illegal importation of hardwood flooring manufactured in China from timber illegally logged in far eastern Russia, in the habitat of the last remaining Siberian tigers and Amur leopards in the world.  Under the plea agreement, Lumber Liquidators will pay $13.15 million, the largest financial penalty ever for timber trafficking under the Lacey Act and one of the largest Lacey Act penalties ever.  DOJ

October 5, 2015

BP agreed to a settlement with the US and the five Gulf states worth $20.8 billion to resolve civil claims arising from the April 2010 Macondo well blowout and the massive oil spill that followed in the Gulf of Mexico.  The global settlement resolves the governments’ civil claims under the Clean Water Act and natural resources damage claims under the Oil Pollution Act, as well as economic damage claims of the five Gulf states and local governments.  It is the largest settlement with a single entity in the DOJ’s history.  The destruction of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig sent more than three million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a 3 month period, resulting in oil slicks that extended across more than 43,000 square miles, affecting water quality and exposing aquatic plants and wildlife to harmful chemicals.  Oil was deposited onto at least 400 square miles of the sea floor and washed up onto more than 1,300 miles of shoreline from Texas to Florida.  DOJ
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