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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Sunoco Inc.
Current Parent Company: Energy Transfer
Parent at the Time of the Penalty Announcement:  subscribe to see this data field
Penalty: $17,500,000
Year: 2012
Date: November 8, 2012
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Violation Description: Shell Oil Company and Sunoco, Inc. agreed to pay a total of $35 million to settle their role in a lawsuit initiated in 2003 concerning groundwater contamination by the gasoline additive MTBE. The announcement did not indicate how much each company would pay. Here we assume the total was divided evenly between them.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: New Hampshire Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: New Hampshire
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Texas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: pipelines
Specific Industry of Current Parent: pipelines
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.