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Company: Premcor Refining Group
Current Parent Company: Valero Energy
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Penalty: $800,000
Year: 2001
Date: July 12, 2001
Offense Group: environment-related offenses
Primary Offense: air pollution violation
Violation Description: Premcor Refining Group (formerly Clark Refining and Marketing) agreed to pay $2 million in settlement of allegations it violated the Clean Air Act when it made major modification to its Hartford facility to increase production without installing legally required pollution control equipment. $1.2 million went to the United States and $800,000 to Illinois. The settlement was also announced by the Justice Department; see the Violation Tracker entry at (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Illinois Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Illinois
Facility City: Hartford
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Texas
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: oil and gas
Specific Industry of Current Parent: oil & gas
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.