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 civil administrative penalty EPA had ever obtained, at the time.
DuPont settled claims that it withheld health and environmental information about PFOA ("C8") used to make Teflon, paying a $10.25 million penalty plus $6.25 million in supplemental environmental projects.
Source: EPA administrative settlement, 2005
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
| Field | E.I. DuPont de Nemours | Volkswagen AG |
|---|---|---|
| Program | Toxic Substances (TSCA) | Clean Air Act |
| Operator | E.I. DuPont de Nemours | Volkswagen AG |
| Location | West Virginia | Nationwide (imported vehicles) |
| Year | 2005 | 2016 |
| Settlement / penalty | $16.5 million | $14.7 billion |
| Source | EPA administrative settlement, 2005 | U.S. DOJ / EPA / CARB consent decrees, 2016-2017 |
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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.