$57M Sought From Formosa Plastics Over Water Pollution

摘要

An environmental advocacy group is seeking a $57.45 million penalty against Formosa Plastics Corp. for the company's alleged illegal dumping of plastic pellets near the Southeast Texas coast. The San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeepers and local residents filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas for alleged "significant, chronic, and ongoing" Clean Water Act violations at Lavaca Bay and other area waterways (San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper v. Formosa Plastics, S.D. Tex., No. 6:17-cv-00047, 7/31/17).