Legal: California fuel jobber to pay penalty for truck spill

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The U.S. EPA said it has settled with the SoCo Group to resolve federal claims stemming from its 2016 diesel fuel spill in San Diego, Calif. SoCo, a petroleum marketer based in Carlsbad, Calif., has agreed to pay a civil penalty of almost $59,400, EPA said. A SoCo official was unavailable for comment. On May 13, 2016, a SoCo tanker truck was allegedly traveling at an unsafe speed and overturned while transitioning from Interstate 8 onto Morena Boulevard, EPA said. The truck discharged about 88 bbl (3,715 gal) of diesel fuel, which migrated through storm drains into the San Diego River and adjoining shorelines. The river flows into Mission Bay and the Pacific Ocean.