Category: Environmental Crimes

  • Brian Thomas Rogers, Asbestos Violation, South Carolina 2024

    Brian Thomas Rogers, Asbestos Violation, South Carolina 2024

    SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA – In a shocking case of environmental disregard, Brian Thomas Rogers, 53, owner of Rogers Environmental, LLC, was sentenced to three years of probation, including the first six months on an overnight curfew, ordered to pay a $25,500 fine, and will perform 100 hours of community service after pleading guilty to Making…

  • Chemical Waste Management Inc. et al, Environmental Contamination, Ohio 2023

    Chemical Waste Management Inc. et al, Environmental Contamination, Ohio 2023

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  • Kirill Kompaniets, Intentional Pollution and Obstruction of Justice, Louisiana 2021

    Kirill Kompaniets, Intentional Pollution and Obstruction of Justice, Louisiana 2021

    NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – A Russian national and the Chief Engineer of a commercial bulk carrier has pleaded guilty to two felony counts for deliberately discharging approximately 10,000 gallons of oil-contaminated bilge water overboard in U.S. waters off the coast of New Orleans last year and then trying to obstruct the Coast Guard’s investigation of…

  • Michael Van Nostrand, Wildlife Trafficking, Florida 2023

    Michael Van Nostrand, Wildlife Trafficking, Florida 2023

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  • ESI Energy LLC, Eagle Killing, California 2023

    ESI Energy LLC, Eagle Killing, California 2023

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  • Genesis Petroleum, Environmental Violations, New York 2019

    Genesis Petroleum, Environmental Violations, New York 2019

    Genesis Petroleum, Inc. and 20 associated companies have agreed to settle a civil lawsuit over environmental violations at 13 gas stations in New York and New Jersey. The lawsuit alleged that the company repeatedly violated the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) between 2012 and 2016. The consent judgment, which is subject to public comment…

  • Austin Powder Company, Clean Water Act Violations, Ohio 2024

    Austin Powder Company, Clean Water Act Violations, Ohio 2024

    Industrial giants must answer for polluting our nation’s waters. Austin Powder Company, the owner and operator of the Red Diamond explosives manufacturing plant located near McArthur, Ohio, has been caught violating the Clean Water Act. Since 2013, the facility has had hundreds of discharges of pollutants in violation of the effluent limitations in its permits…

  • Kory B. Willis, Clean Air Act Violation, Louisiana 2024

    Kory B. Willis, Clean Air Act Violation, Louisiana 2024

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  • Big Lake Gas Plant L.P., Negligent Endangerment, Texas 2021

    Big Lake Gas Plant L.P., Negligent Endangerment, Texas 2021

    A west Texas gas plant has been ordered to pay a $3 million criminal fine for its role in a 2018 incident that killed one employee and injured another. Big Lake Gas Plant L.P., a subsidiary of West Texas Gas, Inc., pleaded guilty in September 2021 to one count of negligent endangerment and one count…

  • Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority, Environmental Crimes, New Jersey 2023

    Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority, Environmental Crimes, New Jersey 2023

    Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority Embroiled in Environmental Crimes Scandal The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority (JCMUA) has been embroiled in an environmental crimes scandal after agreeing to make significant improvements to Jersey City’s municipal sewer and drinking water systems under an agreement with the United States Government. According to officials, the agreement will significantly…