Company Fined $11,500 for Wetlands Damage
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By SCOTT HARPER  BY SCOTT HARPER  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  CHESAPEAKE - Hearndon Construction Corp. has agreed to pay the state an $11,500 fine and restore wetlands and woods illegally damaged during development of new homes in the Deep Creek area of Chesapeake.
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A UK company is ordered to pay out Â£750 in damages for sending spam.
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The US Department of Justice fines oil giant BP some $373m (Â£182m), for fraud and environmental violations.
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By Jennifer Amy Myers, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Jun. 2--BILLERICA -- In a settlement with state and federal environmental officials, the town has agreed to pay $250,000 in fines for Clean Water Act violations that span more than four decades.
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Actor Bruce Willis will pay a &#36;21,000 fine for violating federal wetlands protection laws by clearing a half-acre island in a pond at his central Idaho home.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 19--Tens of thousands of farms are illegally exempt from laws requiring the monitoring and reporting of toxic water runoff, environmental groups said in a lawsuit filed Monday.
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By Dave Black  A development company was ordered to pay more than pounds 17,000 yesterday after admitting a second offence of allowing sewage effluent from a flagship housing project to pollute a Northumberland river.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  MORRIS TOWNSHIP  Aerospace giant Honeywell International Inc. will pay a $500,000 fine for hazardous waste violations at its Aircraft Landing Systems facility in Kingman, Ariz.,  officials said.
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BP Plc and subsidiaries have agreed to pay $373 million in fines and restitution for environmental violations and fraud charges, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.
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Bee Staff Writer. In what insurance officials are calling one of the largest fines for workers&#39; compensation fraud, two Southern California firms have been ordered to pay $14.6 million
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By Denis Cuff, MEDIANEWS  When Contra Costa County crews cleared silt from the Walnut Creek channel 11 years ago, environmentalists accused them of scraping away soil and plants where birds and animals were living.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Mar. 6--Nearly 2,000 gallons of a water treatment chemical were spilled over the weekend at the county's Lopez Lake water treatment plant, and some of it ended up in Arroyo Grande Creek.
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CHICAGO, June 5  /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has reached an agreement with Minnesota Metal Finishing Inc. of Minneapolis for alleged violations of hazardous waste rules.  The company will pay an $85,000 penalty.
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Sears Roebuck and Co. has agreed to pay a $500,000 civil penalty for failing to report a defect in certain riding lawn mowers, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Friday.
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Keel-hauled outfit suffers biggest-ever settlement An unnamed international media firm has agreed to pay a record fine of â¬2.5m ($3.46m) for being found to have "significant shortfalls in software licenses".â¦
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A federal judge on Friday imposed limits on water flows caused by huge pumps sending water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta to users around the state, saying the pumps were drawing in and destroying a threatened fish.
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By SHANNON DININNY  RICHLAND, Wash. - Washington state on Tuesday requested that the Energy Department pay a fine for leaking a highly toxic and potentially cancer-causing agent into the ground at the Hanford nuclear reservation.