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Company: Cleveland-Cliffs
Current Parent Company: Cleveland-Cliffs
Penalty: $3,000,000
Year: 2022
Date: February 14, 2022
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: environmental violation
Secondary Offense: Clean Water Act and related
Violation Description: Cliffs Burns Harbor (Cleveland-Cliffs) agreed to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act and other laws, for an August 2019 discharge of ammonia and cyanide-laden wastewater into the East Branch of the Little Calumet River. The discharge, which led to fish kills in the river, also caused beach closures along the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Cleveland-Cliffs agreed to undertake substantial measures to improve its wastewater system at its steel manufacturing and finishing facility in Burns Harbor, Indiana.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency referral to the Justice Department
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Indiana
Facility City: Burns Harbor
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Ohio
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: mining and minerals
Specific Industry of Current Parent: mining
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.