Dyno Nobel Inc. will pay $1.4 million to settle allegations that it failed to report ammonia releases from its chemical manufacturing facility near St. Helens, Ore.
The company will pay $492,000 in civil penalties and spend $940,000 on emergency response equipment that it will donate to the Columbia Fire & Rescue and the Scappoose Rural Fire District, according to the terms of a proposed consent decree filed June 24.
The proposed settlement, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, will resolve failure-to-report claims under the federal Superfund law and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. ...
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