Tulsa Plant to Pay Fines of $5.5M: Environment: Sinclair Enters Plea Deal
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By Adam Wilmoth, The Daily Oklahoman  Dec. 16--Sinclair Tulsa Refining Co. has pleaded guilty to two felony counts of deliberately manipulating wastewater discharges at its Tulsa refinery, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday.
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ConocoPhillips will install $525 million in pollution controls at nine refineries and pay a $4.5 million fine to settle a federal lawsuit alleging Clean Air Act violations, the Bush administration announced Thursday.
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DALLAS (CBS.MW) -- Royal Dutch/Shell Group will pay a $120 million penalty to settle a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation of its overstatement of nearly 4.5 billion barrels of proven reserves, the federal agency said Tuesday.
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Shell, the beleaguered oil giant, has been asked by Nigeria&#39;s Senate to pay $1.5bn (Â£830m) compensation to communities affected by oil pollution in the country.
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By Susan Gordon, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 9--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding that the City of Tacoma to pay a $358,000 fine and restore wildlife habit as a penalty for missing deadlines on the Thea Foss Waterway Superfund cleanup.
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German computer chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG (IFX) has agreed to plead guilty to price fixing and will pay a $160 million fine, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.    In a plea agreement filed in U.S...
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Companies and individuals found responsible for environmental disasters should face criminal charges, the European Union's executive said Friday in proposing a measure that would punish serious offenses across the 27-nation bloc with up to five years in prison or a $975,000 fine.
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McDonald's has agreed to pay &#36;8.5 million to settle a lawsuit over artery-clogging trans fats in its cooking oils, the company said on Friday.
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The oil company agreed to pay $373 million in fines and restitution to end investigations into whether it manipulated energy markets and violated environmental laws, the Justice Department said.
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A FEB. 1 article, "Berkeley foundry settles four air lawsuits," reported that Pacific Steel Casting avoided being taken to court for pollution violations by entering into a legal settlement with Communities for a Better Environment.   But the poisoning of the neighborhood continues.
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Infineon Technologies AG agreed to plead guilty to fixing prices for digital memory chips and pay a $160 million criminal fine, the third largest US antitrust enforcement penalty, the Justice Department said.
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Ford will return hundreds of electric cars to Norway after protests about its plans to scrap them. Also: IBM and SCO Group tussle over Unix lawsuit & hellip;. Former Enterasys Networks CEO pleads guilty to fraud conspiracy charge & hellip;. and more.
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WASHINGTON - Infineon Technologies AG, a German manufacturer of DRAM (dynamic RAM) has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $160 million fine for attempting to fix prices in the DRAM market, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Wednesday.
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MOSCOWâThe Moscow Arbitration Court ruled yesterday that embattled oil giant Yukos must pay the equivalent of about $1.7 billion (Canadian) in fines and penalties as part of a $5.
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By Hanah Cho, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 3--Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. and a New York cable operator agreed on a price yesterday to carry Sinclair's local broadcast stations.
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U.S. government announces company's agreement to plead guilty, pay $160 million fine.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Mirant Americas Energy Marketing, a subsidiary of Mirant Corp. will pay a $12.5 million civil penalty to settle charges that it tried to manipulate natural gas markets in 2000 and 2001