The $64.5 million penalty, which comes on top of a $177 million investment to reduce pollution, is the largest ever for Clean Air Act violations involving stationary sources.
A Marathon Oil refinery near the southwestern border of Detroit. The company's facilities in North Dakota are accused of violating the Clean Air Act. Marathon Oil will pay a record $64.5 million penalty and invest an estimated $177 million in pollution-cutting measures to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at oil and gas operations in North Dakota, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department announced Thursday.
The penalty is the largest ever for Clean Air Act violations at stationary sources, which include oil refineries, power plants and factories, according to the EPA.
In particular, the facilities released illegal amounts of volatile organic compounds and carbon monoxide, which are linked to asthma and other respiratory illnesses, the agencies said. They also emitted large quantities ofUnder the agreement announced Thursday, Marathon is required to take steps to reduce
more than 2.25 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the next five years — roughly equivalent to the emissions avoided by taking 487,000 cars off the road for a year, the EPA said in a news release. The settlement will also prevent nearly 110,000 tons of volatile organic compound emissions, according to the agency.
While Marathon ranked as the country’s 22nd-largest oil producer in 2022, it was the seventh-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the oil and gas industry. A large portion of these emissions came from flaring — the practice of intentionally releasing methane into the atmosphere, rather than building equipment to capture it.
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