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 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
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
| Field | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox | Duke Energy |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Superfund / hazardous waste | Clean Water Act |
| Operator | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox | Duke Energy |
| Location | Nationwide (~2,700 sites) | North Carolina |
| Year | 2014 | 2015 |
| Settlement / penalty | $5.15 billion | $102 million |
| Source | U.S. DOJ, April 2014 | U.S. DOJ, 2015 |
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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.