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.
A pipe under a coal-ash pond let go into a drinking-water river.
Duke Energy subsidiaries pleaded guilty to nine Clean Water Act violations across North Carolina plants and paid $102 million in fines, restitution, and community service after the 2014 Dan River release.
Source: U.S. DOJ, 2015
The settlement that reset the price of an oil spill.
After the 1989 tanker grounding fouled 1,300 miles of Alaskan coastline, the 1991 settlement combined a $900 million civil recovery paid over ten years with $100 million in criminal restitution.
Source: U.S. DOJ / EPA / State of Alaska settlement, 1991
| Field | Duke Energy | Exxon (Exxon Valdez) |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Clean Water Act | Clean Water Act |
| Operator | Duke Energy | Exxon (Exxon Valdez) |
| Location | North Carolina | Alaska |
| Year | 2015 | 1991 |
| Settlement / penalty | $102 million | ~$1 billion |
| Source | U.S. DOJ, 2015 | U.S. DOJ / EPA / State of Alaska settlement, 1991 |
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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.