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 largest recovery for the cleanup of environmental contamination.
A fraudulent-transfer case over decades of Kerr-McGee wood-treatment, uranium, and chemical waste ended in a $5.15 billion settlement to fund cleanup and health claims across roughly 2,700 sites in dozens of states.
Source: U.S. DOJ, April 2014
| Field | Duke Energy | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Clean Water Act | Superfund / hazardous waste |
| Operator | Duke Energy | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox |
| Location | North Carolina | Nationwide (~2,700 sites) |
| Year | 2015 | 2014 |
| Settlement / penalty | $102 million | $5.15 billion |
| Source | U.S. DOJ, 2015 | U.S. DOJ, April 2014 |
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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.