DuPont Agrees To Pay $3.1M For Environmental Law Violations At Closed Facility

(July 13, 2020, 3:07 PM EDT) -- HOUSTON — E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. on July 9 entered into an agreement with the federal government and state of Texas in federal court in Texas that would require it to pay a $3.1 million civil penalty for violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Clean Water Act (CWA) at a former pesticide manufacturing facility where a leak killed four workers in 2014 and that closed in 2016 (United States v. E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co., No. 20-cv-2423, S.D. Texas)....