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• Portland company fined $139,000 for Clean Air Act violations 

  EPA News Release: Portland company fined $139,000 for Clean Air Act violations 

  • Release Date: June 6, 2024

• EPA Region 10 enforcement actions in 2023 

  EPA News Release: EPA Region 10 enforcement actions in 2023 

  • Release Date: March 6, 2024

• EPA penalizes Oregon lumber company nearly $50,000 for Clean Water Act violations 

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes Oregon lumber company nearly $50,000 for Clean Water Act violations 

  • Release Date: October 12, 2023

• EPA penalizes American Seafoods Company almost $1M for Clean Water Act violations off Oregon, Washington coasts

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes American Seafoods Company almost $1M for Clean Water Act violations off Oregon, Washington coasts

  • Release Date: September 28, 2023

• EPA penalizes Oregon company over $148,000 for installing ‘defeat devices’

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes Oregon company over $148,000 for installing ‘defeat devices’

  • Release Date: July 21, 2023

• City of Sandy must pay $500,000 in penalties, limit sewer hookups under new agreement with EPA, USDOJ, DEQ

  EPA News Release: City of Sandy must pay $500,000 in penalties, limit sewer hookups under new agreement with EPA, USDOJ, DEQ

  • Release Date: July 18, 2023

• Smith Frozen Foods to pay $100,000 penalty for Clean Air Act violations

  EPA News Release: Smith Frozen Foods to pay $100,000 penalty for Clean Air Act violations

  • Release Date: August 22, 2022

• EPA awards Portland Area Indian Health Board $445,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers

  EPA News Release: EPA awards Portland Area Indian Health Board $445,000 to test for lead in drinking water at schools and childcare centers

  • Release Date: November 23, 2021

• EPA reaches settlements with 41 Idaho, Oregon, and Washington home renovators for lead-based paint violations

  Lead paint safety training for contractors, community education workshops offered this fall

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches settlements with 41 Idaho, Oregon, and Washington home renovators for lead-based paint violations

  • Release Date: October 25, 2021

• EPA settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  Waste Management, Inc., agrees to pay $104k penalty and make immediate improvements

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Riverbend Landfill in McMinnville over toxic air emissions

  • Release Date: September 30, 2021

• EPA fines Portland, Oregon glass company $39k for violating toxic chemical reporting rules

  Owens-Brockway Glass failed to report chromium used in glassmaking

  EPA News Release: EPA fines Portland, Oregon glass company $39k for violating toxic chemical reporting rules

  • Release Date: September 16, 2021

• EPA settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  Settlement resolves claims stemming from 2016 UPRR train derailment, spill, and fire

  EPA News Release: EPA settles with Union Pacific Railroad for Clean Water Act Violations in Oregon

  • Release Date: September 15, 2021

• EPA penalizes Univar Solutions USA $165,000 for violations of federal pesticide laws

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes Univar Solutions USA $165,000 for violations of federal pesticide laws

  • Release Date: April 19, 2021

• EPA penalizes Premier Performance $3 million for selling ‘defeat’ devices

  Idaho company, affiliates illegally sold devices allowing 3.5 million pounds of illegal emissions per year

  EPA News Release: EPA penalizes Premier Performance $3 million for selling ‘defeat’ devices

  • Release Date: March 9, 2021

• EPA reaches major cleanup agreement for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, 100 percent of site now in active engineering design phase

  Settlement with businesses, federal, state, and local agencies for remedial design of the Swan Island Basin area brings the last and largest area into active cleanup work

  EPA News Release: EPA reaches major cleanup agreement for the Portland Harbor Superfund Site, 100 percent of site now in active engineering design phase

  • Release Date: February 12, 2021