Willamette Fined for Clean Air Act Violations

In what EPA is calling the “largest enforcement penalty ever taken against a single ‘smokestack’ company under the Clean Air Act,” Portland, Oregon-based Willamette Industries is expected to spend in excess of $90 million in fines and pollution controls. The company violated the Clean Air Act by failing to install proper pollution controls or obtain proper permits at 13 facilities in Oregon, Arkansas, Louisiana, and South Carolina. Included in the July 20 negotiated settlement are $11.2 million in civil penalties (slightly higher than the $11.1 million in fines Louisiana-Pacific paid in 1993 for similar violations—see

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