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Plant to pay fine for pollution |
A Texas-based company will pay $300,000 in fines and clean up hazardous chemical pollution in northwestern Pennsylvania under a plea agreement reached yesterday.
The terms of the agreement and consent order involving Trinity Industries Inc. of Dallas were announced by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources.
A state grand jury in April charged Trinity and a former maintenance supervisor with three felony counts of unlawful management of hazardous waste.
Trinity used hazardous solvents, including xylene, to clean rail cars at the plant in Greenville and they spilled on its earthen floor.
The contaminated soil was then dumped at another site in nearby Hempfield, the grand jury found.
Trinity Industries ran the rail car cleaning operation from 1985 until it closed in December 2000. The Trinity North parcel where the chemicals were spilled was sold in 2004; the company still owns the Trinity South parcel where the contaminated soil was dumped, DEP officials said. |
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