Columbia Oil Dumper Fined $25 Million ; Shipping Firm's Guilty Plea Sends 'Strong Message,' Epa Says

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A Taiwan-based shipping company that dumped waste oil into the Columbia River will pay the largest fine of its kind after pleading guilty Monday in federal court to 24 felonies and one misdemeanor.

Evergreen International S.A. will pay $25 million for concealing the deliberate and illegal discharge of waste oil into the Columbia River and waterways in Seattle, Los Angeles, Newark, N.J., and Charleston, S.C. The penalty is being evenly divided between the five judicial districts that cover those regions.

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Columbia Oil Dumper Fined $25 Million ; Shipping Firm's Guilty Plea Sends 'Strong Message,' Epa Says

In a separate fine, Evergreen in 2003 paid the Washington state Department of Ecology almost $131,000 in connection with a 500- gallon oi...

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