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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Sunoco Inc.
Current Parent Company: Energy Transfer
Penalty: $28,000,000
Year: 2008
Date: May 7, 2008
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Secondary Offense: MTBE violation
Violation Description: Sunoco was one of 13 oil companies to agreed to pay a total of $422 million to settle multiple lawsuits alleging that they were responsible for contamination of water supplies with the dangerous gasoline additive MTBE. The allocation of the payments among the defendants was not disclosed in the public court record, but Hess mentioned in an SEC filing that it had paid $28 million: (click here)
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Southern District of New York
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 1:00cv1898
Case Name: In Re: Methyl Tertiary Butyl Ether ("MTBE") Products Liability Litigation
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
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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