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EPA Enforcement Roundup: Week of 1/6

Posted on 1/6/2025 by Lion Technology Inc.

The EPA Enforcement Roundup gives you insight into how and why US EPA and State partners assess penalties for environmental noncompliance.

All violations or claims discussed below are alleged only unless we say otherwise, and we withhold the names of organizations and individuals to protect their privacy.

Here is your first EPA Enforcement Roundup of 2025:

A metal tubing manufacturer in Wisconsin agreed to a $150,000 settlement with US EPA to resolve alleged hazardous waste violations.

Allegedly, the manufacturer stored hazardous waste for more than 90 days on-site without a hazardous waste storage license, and failed to:
  • Make and complete hazardous waste determinations.
  • Mark start dates of accumulation visibly and accurately on containers.
  • Label and close satellite accumulation containers.
  • Provide training to employees whose job duties included hazardous waste management.
  • Properly manage universal waste lamps and batteries.
According to US EPA, the company has addressed the alleged Resource Conservation and Recovery Act violations and will pay a civil penalty of $150,356.


An electric utility company has been ordered to pay $61 million to mitigate the effects of alleged Clean Air Act violations in Missouri.

US District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri approved the order, which the company proposed jointly with an environmental protection group and the US Department of Justice.

The order requires the company to spend $25,000,000 to provide vouchers to eastern Missouri households to purchase air filters designed to improve household air quality. The other $36M will be spent on helping St. Louis school district switch to zero-emission, electric school buses.

US EPA’s press release states that the company’s violations include 14 years of unpermitted excess emissions of sulfur dioxide. Excess SO2 emissions led to increased risks of lung disease, heart disease, and premature death in downwind communities in the form of harmful particulate matter.


A pond supply store in Michigan will pay $162,246 in a settlement with US EPA to resolve alleged FIFRA violations.

Per the Agency, the store sold and distributed unregistered pesticide products in violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act. The company allegedly sold pesticide products not labeled in accordance with the product’s EPA registration.

Pesticidal claims can only be made for products that have been registered with EPA.


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