Show Water Pollution Penalty In Alaska The state of Alaska recently won the largest penalty ever in a water pollution CRIMINAL fines of and a civil penalty of were levied against the Collier Carbon and Chemical a subsidiary of Union Oil Company of after a trial in Superior Court at July The firm was charged with violating its state permit to discharge waste water into Cook Inlet from its fertilizer plant at EXCESSIVE amounts of ammonia were discharged and 19 false reports were filed with the Alaska Department of Environmental according to the The company pleaded no contest and agreed to the civil An EPA hearing last April led to the Deena a sanitary engineer for the Alaska noticed discrepancies between the company's hearing testimony and data reported to the MAX department and the attorney general of Alaska authorized seizure of the firm's The investigators found two sets of one of actual amounts of pollutants discharged and one of falsified amounts for reporting to the state |