Exxon Mobil Subsidiaries to Pay $5 Million To Settle Claims Over 2013 Arkansas Spill

摘要

Two subsidiaries of Exxon Mobil Corp. will pay $5 million to settle a joint federal-state lawsuit over alleged Clean Water Act violations arising from a 2013 crude oil spill in Arkansas, the Department of Justice said April 22 (United States v. ExxonMobil Pipeline Co., E.D. Ark., No. 4:13-cv-00355, settlement 4/22/15). Under a proposed consent decree lodged the same day in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. and Mobil Pipe Line Co. will pay $3.19 million in federal fines, $1 million in state fines, $600,000 for a project to improve water quality at a lake affected by the spill and $280,000 to compensate Arkansas for the costs of litigation.