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Georgia-Based Millard Refrigerated Services to Pay $3 Million Civil Penalty for Ammonia Release That Sickened Workers Responding to Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—June 2, 2015. The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a final settlement with Millard Refrigerated Services that resolves alleged violations of the Clean Air Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act violations for an airborne release of ammonia from Millard’s Theodore, Alabama, facility in 2010.  Millard will pay a $3 million penalty for the violations that sickened 152 people responding to the BP oil spill.

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