Environmental groups, DEP reach $2.6M settlement with Beaver County plastics manufacturer over water pollution

Pennsylvania Plastics Pollution Settlement Could Set a National Precedent for Control of Pellets - Inside Climate News

The case is the first citizen suit to successfully settle over “nurdles” in an inland waterway. State regulators weighed in to help.By Jon HurdleA Pennsylvania plastics manufacturer will pay $2.6 million for allegedly violating the federal Clean Water Act and will ensure that no more of its plastic pellets leak into waterways, under a proposed settlement with two environmental groups.

Environmental groups, DEP reach $2.6M settlement with Beaver County plastics manufacturer over water pollution

Two local environmental groups reached a multimillion settlement with a Beaver County plastics manufacturer that resolves past violations of federal water...

Styropek plastics plant facility in Potter Township facing decree of over $2.6 million for repeated pollution of Raccoon Creek and the Ohio River - Beaver County Radio

(File Photo of the PennEnvironment Logo) Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News (Potter Township, PA) A possible state content decree that would order it to pay more than $2.6 million for repeated pollution of Raccoon Creek and the Ohio River is being faced by the owner of a former plastics plant in Monaca. The decree was filed on Wednesday by the Department of Environmental Protection, in conjunction with nonprofits Three Rivers Waterkeeper and…

Plastic manufacturer agrees to $2.6 million settlement for pollution in Ohio River tributary

Two environmental groups and the DEP reached a settlement with Styropek for plastic pellet pollution in Raccoon Creek near the Ohio River. The post Plastic manufacturer agrees to $2.6 million settlement for pollution in Ohio River tributary appeared first on The Allegheny Front.