While Rex Tillerson attempts to run an emptied-out State Department, the company he ran for a decade is once again being called to account for its hostility to American law.
ExxonMobil was ordered to pay $20 million in fines for releasing 10 million pounds of pollutants into the air from a Texas chemical plant.
District Judge David Hittner said that the company violated the Clean Air Act 16,386 times from 2005 to 2013, CNN reports. The court also found the company reaped millions economically because it delayed improvements at the facility where it released the pollutants, located in Baytown, Tex.
The court estimated ExxonMobil gained about $14 million from dodging anti-pollution requirements, so the $20 million fine is not as large as it might at first sound. The company has not yet said whether it will appeal.
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At Daily Kos on this date in 2006—Things aren’t going swimmingly in New Orleans:
The Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild the levees. But the levees are not ready to withstand another Katrina. They will be back to "pre-Katrina" levels by June 1st, the government promises. Not built better, not built higher, but the same. Indeed, some experts say that they are "substantially weaker" than before.
President Bush just requested $2.2 billion in emergency funding to repair Louisiana's damaged levees, but he is requiring the state to pick up another $270 million of the costs. Oh, and he left off lower Plaquemines Parish from the repair list. And he requested the extra funds only after Senator Landrieu placed a hold on his FCC nominee.
This is the reality of the rebuilding process. For eight months, we've seen piecemeal funding--drip, drip, drip--demonstrating that Congress and the President refuse to acknowledge that this may well be the costliest disaster in American history.
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today’s Kagro in the Morning show, Donald Trump joins the show to explain why he thought being POTUS would be so easy. We finally enter the exhibits against Sebastian Gorka into evidence. Trump Tower/Mos Eisley has a sister spaceport at Mar-A-Loco & it’s scumbags all the way down.
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