The August 2019 fish kill is another chapter in a long history of pollution problems at the sprawling Burns Harbor complex.
One of the biggest polluters of Lake Michigan agreed Monday to pay $3 million in fines after a previous owner dumped a plume of concentrated ammonia and cyanide into a northwest Indiana tributary and then failed to warn neighbors until thousands of dead fish floated past a marina days later.filed in U.S.
It took an independent lawsuit and a presidential election to get federal and state attorneys involved. “This sends a clear message to Cleveland Cliffs and other industrial polluters in northwest Indiana that they need to clean up their act,” Howard Learner, the Environmental Law and Policy Center’s executive director, said of the legal settlement, known as a consent decree.appears to be related to an ongoing investigation of how ArcelorMittal and its contract laboratory handled water samples.
Only samples that revealed violations of the company’s Clean Water Act permit were reanalyzed, state inspectors noted. In addition to paying $3 million in fines, split evenly between the federal government and Indiana, the company is donating 127 acres of land near the East Branch of the Little Calumet River that eventually will be added to the national park.
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