Superfund / hazardous waste · 2014 Public record Kerr-McGee legacy sites
Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox · Nationwide (~2,700 sites)
$5.15 billion
settlement · log scale, $16.5M to $14.7B
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
Toxic Substances (TSCA) · 2005 Public record Washington Works (PFOA / C8)
E.I. DuPont de Nemours · West Virginia
$16.5 million
settlement · log scale, $16.5M to $14.7B
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