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 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
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 | E.I. DuPont de Nemours | Exxon (Exxon Valdez) |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Toxic Substances (TSCA) | Clean Water Act |
| Operator | E.I. DuPont de Nemours | Exxon (Exxon Valdez) |
| Location | West Virginia | Alaska |
| Year | 2005 | 1991 |
| Settlement / penalty | $16.5 million | ~$1 billion |
| Source | EPA administrative settlement, 2005 | 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.