A Houston-based gas pipeline company has agreed...
A Houston-based gas pipeline company has agreed to pay a record $15-million federal fine and conduct a cleanup that could cost $400 million at company disposal sites containing highly toxic PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, the Justice Department announced. The planned cleanup by Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline Co., part of a proposed consent decree filed in U.S. District Court in Houston, will take place at up to 89 gas pipeline compressor stations in 14 states along the firm’s 10,000-mile-long pipeline. California was not among the states.
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