Two real, published enforcement settlements, lined up. Every figure below is public record; the head-to-head is computed at build time over those real numbers. Penalty bars share one log scale, so they read across the gutter.
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)
The largest recovery for the cleanup of environmental contamination.
A fraudulent-transfer case over decades of Kerr-McGee wood-treatment, uranium, and chemical waste ended in a $5.15 billion settlement to fund cleanup and health claims across roughly 2,700 sites in dozens of states.
Source: U.S. DOJ, April 2014
| Field | BP Exploration & Production | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Clean Water Act | Superfund / hazardous waste |
| Operator | BP Exploration & Production | Anadarko Petroleum / Tronox |
| Location | Gulf of Mexico | Nationwide (~2,700 sites) |
| Year | 2015 | 2014 |
| Settlement / penalty | $5.5 billion | $5.15 billion |
| Source | U.S. DOJ / EPA consent decree, 2015 (entered 2016) | U.S. DOJ, April 2014 |
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These are landmark settlements, not live ECHO facility records. Day-to-day
compliance metrics - quarters in noncompliance, formal-action counts, last inspection -
are not part of a settlement figure; they join per facility from the ECHO Exporter
(loadFacilities() in src/lib/source.ts). See the
Methodology for what is real versus illustrative on this site.