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11 states · 6 landmark cases · 30 pairings

Two ways in, both statically generated with no client-side JavaScript. Pick your state to see the landmark enforcement case sited there and exactly where the live per-state violator leaderboard drops in. Or line up any two of the six landmark settlements and read a build-time head-to-head over the real figures. Nothing here is a live query, and nothing invents a facility number that is not published.

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The curated set

Three states hold an unambiguous landmark case in this snapshot; the rest are ready for the live per-state rollup. A vermilion dot marks a state with a cited case on record.

Cited case on record
Alaska 1 case North Carolina 1 case West Virginia 1 case
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The biggest air case vs the biggest water case
Clean Air Act · 2016 Public record

Volkswagen diesel fleet

Volkswagen AG · Nationwide (imported vehicles)
$14.7 billion
settlement · log scale, $16.5M to $14.7B

Defeat devices that cheated emissions tests on ~580,000 U.S. diesels.

The October 2016 partial settlement totaled about $14.7 billion, including a $2.7 billion environmental mitigation trust and $2 billion for zero-emission-vehicle investment. A separate 2017 resolution added a $1.45 billion Clean Air Act and customs civil penalty on top of criminal fines.

Source: U.S. DOJ / EPA / CARB consent decrees, 2016-2017

Clean Water Act · 2015 Public record

Deepwater Horizon / Macondo well

BP Exploration & Production · Gulf of Mexico
$5.5 billion
settlement · log scale, $16.5M to $14.7B

The largest Clean Water Act penalty in U.S. history.

For the 2010 blowout that discharged millions of barrels of oil, BP agreed to a $5.5 billion Clean Water Act civil penalty - part of a record $20.8 billion global settlement with the United States and five Gulf states.

Source: U.S. DOJ / EPA consent decree, 2015 (entered 2016)

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Every landmark, and its head-to-heads

Each of the six published settlements, with a "vs" link to line it up against any other. Every pairing is a real, statically generated page.

Volkswagen and Kerr-McGee are nationwide cases and BP Deepwater Horizon is offshore, so they have no single state page; all three appear in the head-to-head above and are noted on the states they connect to.

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