ExxonMobil To Pay $6.6M To Resolve CERCLA Violations At Fertilizer Plant

(May 9, 2019, 7:26 AM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, S.C. — ExxonMobil Oil Corp., the federal government and two South Carolina agencies on May 1 entered into an agreement in South Carolina federal court in which the company agreed to spend $6.6 million on environmental restoration projects to resolve allegations that it violated the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and South Carolina environmental laws when releasing hazardous waste into soil and groundwater at a number of phosphate fertilizer plants in the state (United States v. ExxonMobil Oil Corp., No. 19-cv-1273, D. S.C.)....