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Company: Millard Refrigerated Services
Current Parent Company: Lineage Logistics
Penalty: $3,000,000
Year: 2015
Date: June 2, 2015
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a final settlement with Millard Refrigerated Services that resolved alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act violations for an airborne release of ammonia from Millard's Theodore, Alabama, facility in 2010. Millard agreed to pay a $3 million penalty for the violations that sickened 152 people responding to the BP oil spill.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency referral to the Justice Department
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Alabama
Facility City: Theodore
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: California
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: privately held
Major Industry of Current Parent: freight and logistics
Specific Industry of Current Parent: logistics
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