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EPA and BSEE Team Up to Resolve Offshore Environmental Violations

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According to the complaint (PDF) DOJ filed in February 2013, Cleartron ZB-103 was routinely “injected into the outfall pipe to mask oil sheen on the ocean surface resulting from ATP’s discharge of wastewater containing quantities of oil in excess of its NPDES permit limit.” See United States v. ATP Oil & Gas Corp. , 955 F.Supp.2d

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Fifth Circuit Rejects EPA’s Overreaching on CAA and MBTA

The Energy Law

The CPI separators have roofs that prevent the release of air emissions, but the equalization tanks (as well as the other downstream equipment) do not. As a strict liability offense, the government does not need to prove that the defendant had a criminal intent. 703(a); 16 U.S.C. § The MBTA protects 1,026 species of birds.