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Company: Coltec Industries Inc.
Current Parent Company: EnPro Industries
Penalty: $390,000
Year: 2012
Date: March 28, 2012
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Secondary Offense: Clean Air Act and related
Violation Description: Coltec Industries Inc. and National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) agreed to pay a civil penalty of $280,000 and spend approximately $500,000 on an environmental project to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's marine diesel engine air rules, the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced. The project will significantly reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from a testing stack at Coltec's Beloit, Wis., engine manufacturing facility, improving air quality for residents. Coltec and NASSCO also agreed to attach the required EPA engine labels to 40 ship engines that were previously unlabeled or improperly labeled. (The Justice Department did not indicate how the payments would be divided between the two companies. Here the total is split equally.)
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency referral to the Justice Department
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: North Carolina
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: miscellaneous manufacturing
Specific Industry of Current Parent: engineered industrial products
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