Two real, published enforcement settlements, lined up. Every figure below is public record; the head-to-head is computed at build time over those real numbers. Penalty bars share one log scale, so they read across the gutter.
The largest Clean Water Act penalty in U.S. history.
For the 2010 blowout that discharged millions of barrels of oil, BP agreed to a $5.5 billion Clean Water Act civil penalty - part of a record $20.8 billion global settlement with the United States and five Gulf states.
Source: U.S. DOJ / EPA consent decree, 2015 (entered 2016)
The largest civil administrative penalty EPA had ever obtained, at the time.
DuPont settled claims that it withheld health and environmental information about PFOA ("C8") used to make Teflon, paying a $10.25 million penalty plus $6.25 million in supplemental environmental projects.
Source: EPA administrative settlement, 2005
| Field | BP Exploration & Production | E.I. DuPont de Nemours |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Clean Water Act | Toxic Substances (TSCA) |
| Operator | BP Exploration & Production | E.I. DuPont de Nemours |
| Location | Gulf of Mexico | West Virginia |
| Year | 2015 | 2005 |
| Settlement / penalty | $5.5 billion | $16.5 million |
| Source | U.S. DOJ / EPA consent decree, 2015 (entered 2016) | EPA administrative settlement, 2005 |
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These are landmark settlements, not live ECHO facility records. Day-to-day
compliance metrics - quarters in noncompliance, formal-action counts, last inspection -
are not part of a settlement figure; they join per facility from the ECHO Exporter
(loadFacilities() in src/lib/source.ts). See the
Methodology for what is real versus illustrative on this site.