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• United States Reaches Over $310 Million Settlement with Norfolk Southern to Address Harms Caused by East Palestine Train Derailment

  Settlement requires Norfolk Southern to pay for past and future cleanup costs, enhanced rail safety, civil penalty and health monitoring, among other provisions

  EPA News Release: United States Reaches Over $310 Million Settlement with Norfolk Southern to Address Harms Caused by East Palestine Train Derailment

  • Release Date: May 23, 2024

• Texas Petrochemical Company Pleads Guilty to Clean Air Act Violation, Fined More than $30 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil Penalties Related to Explosions at Its Facility in Port Neches

  November 2019 explosions prompted evacuations of thousands of area residents and released millions of pounds of extremely hazardous substances

  EPA News Release: Texas Petrochemical Company Pleads Guilty to Clean Air Act Violation, Fined More than $30 Million in Criminal Fines and Civil Penalties Related to Explosions at Its Facility in Port Neches

  • Release Date: May 21, 2024

• EPA reaches settlement with Public Service Company of Colorado over allegations of noncompliance with Coal Combustion Residual Regulations

  Agreement addresses groundwater contamination at Comanche power station in Pueblo, CO

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches settlement with Public Service Company of Colorado over allegations of noncompliance with Coal Combustion Residual Regulations

  • Release Date: May 23, 2022

• New Enforcement Strategy Advances President Biden’s Environmental Justice Agenda

  Justice Department, EPA Launch Comprehensive Environmental Justice Enforcement Strategy and Restore Option for Supplemental Environmental Projects to Help Communities

  EPA News Release: New Enforcement Strategy Advances President Biden’s Environmental Justice Agenda

  • Release Date: May 5, 2022

• Nueva estrategia de implementación de la ley promueve la Agenda de Justicia Ambiental del presidente Biden

  El Departamento de Justicia y la EPA lanzan una estrategia integral de implementación de la ley de justicia ambiental y restablecen la opción de los Proyectos Ambientales Complementarios para ayudar a las comunidades

  Comunicado de prensa de la EPA News Release: Nueva estrategia de implementación de la ley promueve la Agenda de Justicia Ambiental del presidente Biden

  • Release Date: May 5, 2022